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smut noun
Meaning : A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.
Synonyms : carbon black, crock, lampblack, soot
Translation in other languages :
Meaning : Destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores.
Meaning : Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales.
Synonyms : smut fungus
Meaning : An offensive or indecent word or phrase.
Synonyms : dirty word, filth, obscenity, vulgarism
Meaning : Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire.
Synonyms : erotica, porn, porno, pornography
smut verb
Meaning : Make obscene.
Example :
This line in the play smuts the entire act.
Meaning : Stain with a dirty substance, such as soot.
Meaning : Become affected with smut.
Example :
The corn smutted and could not be eaten.
Meaning : Affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn.
