smut

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

smut, n. [Akin to Sw. smuts, Dan. smuds, MHG. smuz, G. schmutz, D. smet a spot or stain, smoddig, smodsig, smodderig, dirty, smodderen to smut; and probably to E. smite. See Smite, v. t., and cf. Smitt, Smutch.].

•  Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.  [1913 Webster]
•  Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.  [1913 Webster]
•  An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis.  [1913 Webster]
•  Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.  [1913 Webster]

  "He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room."  [1913 Webster]

Smut mill, a machine for cleansing grain from smut.

smut, v. t. 

•  To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.  [1913 Webster]
•  To taint with mildew, as grain.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.  [1913 Webster]
•  To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.  [1913 Webster]

smut, v. i. 

•  To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.  Mortimer.  [1913 Webster]
•  To give off smut; to crock.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

smut, n. & v.
--n.
1 a small flake of soot etc.
2 a spot or smudge made by this.
3 obscene or lascivious talk, pictures, or stories.
4 a a fungous disease of cereals in which parts of the ear change to black powder. b any fungus of the order Ustilaginales causing this.
--v. (smutted, smutting)
1 tr. mark with smuts.
2 tr. infect (a plant) with smut.
3 intr. (of a plant) contract smut.

Idiom

smut-ball Agriculture grain affected by smut. smut-mill a machine for freeing grain from smut.

Derivative

smutty adj. (smuttier, smuttiest) (esp. in sense 3 of n.). smuttily adv. smuttiness n.

Etymology

rel. to LG smutt, MHG smutz(en) etc.: cf. OE smitt(ian) smear, and SMUDGE(1)

THESAURUS

smut

Rabelaisianism, X-rated movie, air pollution, algae, alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, attritus, autophyte, bawdiness, bawdry, bean, bedarken, bedaub, besmear, besmirch, besmutch, besoil, bestain, black, blacken, blackening, blackwash, blast, blight, bloodstain, blot, blotch, blue movie, blur, bracken, bran, brand, brown algae, calx, cancer, canker, carbon, carrion, charcoal, cinder, climber, clinker, coal, coke, conferva, confervoid, coom, cork, corruption, cosmic dust, creeper, crow, crumb, crumble, dab, dandruff, darken, darkening, daub, decay, defile, denigrate, denigration, deposition, deposits, diatom, diluvium, dinge, dirt, dirtiness, dirty, dirty movie, discolor, draff, dregs, dross, dry rot, dust, dust ball, ebon, ebonize, ebony, efflorescence, ember, erotic art, erotic literature, erotographomania, excrement, eyesore, fallout, farina, feces, fern, fescenninity, filings, filth, filthiness, fleck, flick, flour, flyspeck, foul matter, foulness, froth, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fume, fungus, furfur, gangrene, grapevine, green algae, grime, grits, groats, grounds, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, iconolagny, ink, ivy, jet, kelp, kittens, lava, lees, legume, lentil, lewdness, liana, lichen, lint, liverwort, loess, macula, maculation, macule, mark, meal, melanization, melanize, mess, mildew, mold, moraine, moss, moth, moth and rust, muck, mucus, mud, murk, mushroom, must, nastiness, night, nigrification, nigrify, obscenity, offensiveness, offscum, ordure, oversmoke, parasite, parasitic plant, patch, pea, perthophyte, pest, phytoplankton, pitch, planktonic algae, plant families, pornographic art, pornographic literature, pornographomania, pornography, powder, precipitate, precipitation, puffball, pulse, pus, pussies, putrid matter, raspings, raven, red algae, reek, ribaldry, rockweed, rot, rust, salaciousness, salacity, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sawdust, scoria, scum, scurf, scurrility, scuz, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, sediment, settlings, sexploitation, shade, shading, shadow, silt, sinter, skin flick, slag, slime, sloe, slubber, smear, smirch, smirching, smoke, smouch, smudge, smudging, smutch, smutching, smuttiness, snot, soft-core pornography, soil, soilage, soilure, soot, sordes, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spot, stag film, stain, stigma, sublimate, succulent, sullage, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, toadstool, vetch, vileness, vine, worm, wort, wrack

ROGET THESAURUS

smut

Uncleanness

N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.

Impurity

N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.

Blackness

N blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning.