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smut
[ smuht ]
noun
- a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- a black or dirty mark; smudge.
- indecent language or publications; obscenity.
- Plant Pathology.
- a disease of plants, especially cereal grasses, characterized by the conversion of affected parts into black, powdery masses of spores, caused by fungi of the order Ustilaginales.
- a fungus causing this disease.
verb (used with object)
- to soil or smudge.
verb (used without object)
- to become affected with smut, as a plant.
smut
/ smʌt /
noun
- a small dark smudge or stain, esp one caused by soot
- a speck of soot or dirt
- something obscene or indecent
- any of various fungal diseases of flowering plants, esp cereals, in which black sooty masses of spores cover the affected parts
- any parasitic basidiomycetous fungus of the order Ustilaginales that causes such a disease
- angling a minute midge or other insect relished by trout
verb
- to mark or become marked or smudged, as with soot
- to affect (grain) or (of grain) to be affected with smut
- tr to remove smut from (grain)
- tr to make obscene
- intr to emit soot or smut
- intr angling (of trout) to feed voraciously on smuts
smut
/ smŭt /
- Any of various bacidiomycete fungi that are parasitic on plants and are distinguished by the black, powdery masses of spores that appear as sooty smudges on the affected plant parts. Smuts are parasitic chiefly on cereal grasses like corn and wheat and can cause enormous damage to crops.
- Any of the various plant diseases caused by smuts, such as corn smut.
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Derived Forms
- ˈsmuttiness, noun
- ˈsmuttily, adverb
- ˈsmutty, adjective
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Other Words From
- anti·smut adjective
- un·smutted adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of smut1
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Example Sentences
Smut-nosed Dolph never listened before to such praise as was lavished by the hungry men over the pannikins which he heaped.
We see here the Poet confesses Smut a scandalous Entertainment.
They are fortified in Smut, and almost impregnable in Stench, so that where they deserve most, there's no coming at them.
Wee'l then believe you don't talk Smut, when we percieve you careful not to hear it.
The shining surface reflected the Smut, and he seemed to himself to be two.
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