smuts

Meanings

Noun

• South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950)
• 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
• plural of smut

Verb

• make obscene
  • "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
• stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
• become affected with smut
• affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn

Synonyms

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