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smut
(smŭt)n.
1.
a. A particle of dirt or soot: "the smoke and flames blowing from the lantern which peppered him with large black smuts" (Joyce Cary).
b. A smudge made by soot, smoke, or dirt.
2. Sexually explicit or prurient language or material, such as books or movies.
3. See smut fungus.
v. smut·ted, smut·ting, smuts
v.tr.
1. To blacken or smudge, as with smoke or grime.
2. To affect (a plant) with smut fungus.
v.intr.
To be or become blackened or smudged.
[From Middle English smotten, smutten, to defile.]
smut′ti·ly adv.
smut′ti·ness n.
smut′ty adj.
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smut
(smʌt)n
1. a small dark smudge or stain, esp one caused by soot
2. a speck of soot or dirt
3. something obscene or indecent
4. (Plant Pathology)
a. any of various fungal diseases of flowering plants, esp cereals, in which black sooty masses of spores cover the affected parts
b. any parasitic basidiomycetous fungus of the order Ustilaginales that causes such a disease
5. (Angling) angling a midge or other insect relished by trout
vb, smuts, smutting or smutted
6. to mark or become marked or smudged, as with soot
7. (Plant Pathology) to affect (grain) or (of grain) to be affected with smut
8. (Plant Pathology) (tr) to remove smut from (grain)
9. (tr) to make obscene
10. (intr) to emit soot or smut
11. (Angling) (intr) angling (of trout) to feed voraciously on smuts
[Old English smitte; related to Middle High German smitze; associated with smudge, smutch]
ˈsmutty adj
ˈsmuttily adv
ˈsmuttiness n
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smut
(smʌt)n., v. smut•ted, smut•ting. n.
1. a particle of soot; sooty matter.
2. a black or dirty mark; smudge.
3. indecent language or writing; obscenity.
4.
v.t. a. a disease of plants, esp. cereal grasses, characterized by the conversion of affected parts into black, powdery masses of spores, caused by fungi of the order Ustilaginales.
b. a fungus causing this disease.
5. to soil or smudge.
v.i. 6. to become affected with smut, as a plant.
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smut
(smŭt) Any of various plant diseases caused by parasitic fungi that form black, powdery masses of spores on the affected parts. Smut chiefly affects cereal grasses like corn and wheat.
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smut
Past participle: smutted
Gerund: smutting
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| Noun | 1. |  smut - a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and inkatomic number 6, carbon, C - an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds |
| 2. | smut - destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores plant disease - a disease that affects plants loose smut - disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores stinking smut, bunt - disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores flag smut - smut affecting leaves and stems of cereals and other grasses false smut, green smut - disease of rice; grains covered by a green powder consisting of conidia | |
| 3. | smut - any fungus of the order Ustilaginales fungus - an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia order Ustilaginales, Ustilaginales - parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes covered smut - a smut fungus causing a smut disease of grains in which the spore masses are covered or held together by the grain membranes loose smut - a smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores genus Sphacelotheca, Sphacelotheca - genus of smut fungus head smut, Sphacelotheca reiliana - smut fungus attacking heads of corn or sorghum and causing a covered smut Tilletia caries, bunt - fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores onion smut, Urocystis cepulae - smut fungus causing blackish blisters on scales and leaves of onions; especially destructive to seedlings flag smut fungus - a smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores | |
| 4. | smut - an offensive or indecent word or phrase Irish bull, crap, bull - obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull" bawdry, bawdy - lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy" scatology - a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions) profanity - vulgar or irreverent speech or action Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams - little or nothing at all; "I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all"; "I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery" | |
| 5. |  smut - creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desirecreation, creative activity - the human act of creating | |
| Verb | 1. | smut - make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act" |
| 2. | smut - stain with a dirty substance, such as soot stain - produce or leave stains; "Red wine stains the table cloth" | |
| 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 |
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Translations
كلام بَذيء
oplzlost
smuds
klám
nešvankybės
piedauzībarupjība
müstehcen konuşma
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[ˈsmʌt] nCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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[smʌt] n (grain of soot) → granello di fuliggine; (mark) → segno nero; (in conversation) → sconcezze fplCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
smut
(smat) noun vulgar or indecent talk etc. There is too much smut on television nowadays!
ˈsmutty adjective (of a conversation, film etc) indecent. vulgar: He could not be prevented from telling smutty stories.
ˈsmuttiness nounKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.