n. | 1. | Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter. | |||
2. | (Mining) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults. | ||||
3. | (Bot.) An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis. | ||||
4. | Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity. He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.
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v. t. | 1. | To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance. | |||
2. | To taint with mildew, as grain. | ||||
3. | To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish. | ||||
4. | To clear of smut; | ||||
v. i. | 1. | To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted. | |||
2. | To give off smut; to crock. |
Noun | 1. | smut - a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink |
2. | smut - destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores | |
3. | smut - any fungus of the order Ustilaginales Synonyms: smut fungus | |
4. | smut - creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | |
Verb | 1. | smut - make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act" |
2. | smut - stain with a dirty substance, such as soot | |
3. | smut - become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be eaten" | |
4. | smut - affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn |