smut

Meanings

Plural: smuts

Noun

• a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
• destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
• any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
• an offensive or indecent word or phrase
• creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
• Soot.
• A flake of ash or soot.
• Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
• Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
• Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
• Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
• A copper boiler.

Verb

• make obscene
  • "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
• stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
• become affected with smut
  • "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"
• affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
• To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.
• To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
• To become tainted by the smut fungus.
• To clear of the smut fungus.

Synonyms

carbon black, crock, dirty word, erotica, filth, lampblack, obscenity, porn, porno, pornography, smut fungus, soot, vulgarism