anti smut
noun
1.
a particle of soot; sooty matter.
2.
a black or dirty mark; smudge.
3.
indecent language or publications; obscenity.
4.
Plant Pathology.
a.
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.
b.
a fungus causing this disease.
verb (used with object)
5.
to soil or smudge.
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verb (used without object)
6.
to become affected with smut, as a plant.
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smut (smʌt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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. | 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 a minute midge or other insect relished by trout |
| —vb , smuts, smutting, smutted | |
| 6. | to mark or become marked or smudged, as with soot |
| 7. | to affect (grain) or (of grain) to be affected with smut |
| 8. | (tr) to remove smut from (grain) |
| 9. | (tr) to make obscene |
| 10. | (intr) to emit soot or smut |
| 11. | (intr) angling (of trout) to feed voraciously on smuts |
| [Old English smitte; related to Middle High German smitze; associated with | |
| 'smutty | |
| —adj | |
| 'smuttily | |
| —adv | |
| 'smuttiness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
smut
1664, "black mark, stain," from verb smutten "debase, defile" (early 15c.), cognate with M.H.G. smotzen "make dirty," from W.Gmc. *smutt- (cf. M.H.G. smuz "grease, dirt," Ger. Schmutz "dirt," Ger. schmutzen "to make dirty"). The meaning "indecent or obscene language" is first attested 1668 (implied in
smutty).
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smut  (smŭt) Pronunciation Key
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