Smut

Definition: Smut

Smut

Noun

1. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.

2. Destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores.

3. Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales.

Verb

1. Stain with a dirty substance, such as soot.

2. Become affected with smut, as of corn.

3. Affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "smut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1786. (references)

Environment

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Smut

Impurity

Noun: impurity; uncleanness; (filth); immodesty; grossness; Adjective: indelicacy, indecency; impudicity; obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque.

Uncleanness

Dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle.

Crosswords: Smut

Scottish (a bill).

Let me tell you, I'm really proud of my smut peddler Dad. (Random Acts of Violence; writing credit: Drew Bell; Jefferson Langley)

Downloading smut again (Pauly; writing credit: Mark Alton Brown; Dee LaDuke)

What's a little boy like you doing with big boy smut like this (Better Off Dead...; writing credit: Savage Steve Holland)

Compares with smut. (Smut; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Give me smut and nothing but (Smut; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

The Smut Peddler (1965)

Smut (performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Nine Inch Will Please a Lady: A Treasury of Smut (reference)

• Pure Smut Nothing but Pure Smut: 99 44/100% Pure Smut, Insults and Jokes (reference)

• Smut (reference)

• Smut; an anatomy of dirt (reference)

• The Smut Peddlers (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Smut (reference)

• Chillin' Like a Smut Villain (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Political Economy

BRAZIL

For the past several years, Brazil blocked U.S. wheat imports due to several phytosanitary issues related to wheat, including TCK smut, cereal stripe and flag smut. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "smut": boil smut ♦ corn smut ♦ covered smut ♦ false smut ♦ flag smut ♦ flag smut fungus ♦ green smut ♦ green smut fungus ♦ head smut ♦ loose smut ♦ onion smut ♦ smut fungus ♦ smut grass ♦ smut mill ♦ stinking smut ♦ stinking smut of wheat ♦ talk smut ♦ wheat flag smut. Additional references.

Beginning with "smut": smut-detector, smut-flecked, smut-free, smut-peddler, smut-seeking.

Albanian

vrug (blight), pisllëk (dirt, filth, muck, squalor), blozë (black, lampblack, pitch-black, smoke-black, soot). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كلام بذىء (ribaldry, stupidity), ‏قصص بذيئة, ‏وسخ (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, defiled, dirty, filthy, foul, grime, grimy, grubbiness, litter, mess up, offset, ordure, scum, slattern, soil, soot, sordid, stain, tarnish), ‏تلوث بالسخام, ‏سخام (bloat, colly, crock, grime, soot), ‏السناج داء من أمراض النبات, ‏أصاب بمرض السناج للنبات, ‏بذاءة (bawdiness, dirt, dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, lewdness, nastiness, obscenity, ribaldry, sordidness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сажда, цинизми (dirt, filthiness), главня (brand, cockle, firebrand), петно от сажди, плесен (fungus, mildew, mould, must, rot). (various references)

Czech

sprosté slovo (swear word), saze (soot), pornografie (pornography), obscénnost (obscenity). (various references)

Danish

sodflager. (various references)

Dutch

roetvlok. (various references)

Farsi 

هزل , لکه (Blob, Blot, Blotch, Blur, Dirt, Dot, Freckle, Gall, Glob, Pip, Smear, Smooch, Smudge, Splotch, Spot, Stain, Taint), تصاویروداستانهای خارج ازاخلاق , سیاه ولکه دارکردن , سخن زشت , زنگ زدن (Oxidize, Ring, Ringer, Rust, Stain), رنگ سیاه (Sable), دوده (Black, Grime, Soot). (various references)

Finnish

nokipilkku (smudge), nokihiutale, noki (blight, soot). (various references)

French

salir (smear, smudge), porno, obscénité, noircir, fumeron, crasse (smudginess), cochonneries, charbon du blé. (various references)

German

Schmutzliteratur (dirty literature, filth, smutty literature), Schmutz (dirt, dirtiness, dung, filth, grime, grimes, muck, mud, ordure, smudginess, sordidness, squalor), Dreck (dirt, filth, jam, mess, muck, muckiness, mud, raunchiness, rubbish, scruffiness). (various references)

Greek 

καπνιά (blight, lampblack, smudge, soot). (various references)

Hebrew 

ש�"פון (blast, blight, nip), כתם פיח, �'ר�'יר פיח, � בול פ�" (bawdiness, bawdry, obscenity, profanity, ribaldry, scurrility). (various references)

Hungarian

maszat (black, mess-up, smear, splodge, splosh, splotch), korom (black, carbon deposit, grime, lampblack, soot), trágárság (filth, foulness, indecency, nastiness, obscenity, ordure, scurrility, smuttiness), koromfolt, gabonaüszög (rust). (various references)

Italian

oscenit� (bawdiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, obsceneness, obscenity), macchia di fuliggine, fumacchio, fuliggine (soot). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'穂病 , �'穂 , �'奴 (black person, dark-skinned person, prompter, stagehand), �'�"坊 (black person, dark-skinned person, prompter, stagehand). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くろぼ, くろほびょう, くろほ, くろ�"ぼう (black person, dark-skinned person, prompter, stagehand), くろ�"ぼ (black person, dark-skinned person, prompter, stagehand), �"くど (black person, black soil, black terracotta, dark-skinned person, prompter, realm, stagehand). (various references)

Manx

sooie (colly, soot), smittan, drogh chaaynt (bad language, swearing), broid (blow, dirt, filth, grime, pollutant). (various references)

Pig Latin

utsmay.(various references)

Portuguese

fuligem (black, crock, grime, soot). (various references)

Romanian

vorbe obscene (bawd), tãciune (blight, brand, canker, cinder, coal, embers), tãciuna, porcãrii (ribaldries, ribaldry), patã (blemish, blot, blur, breath, dab, flaw, fleck, Mark, patch, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, spill, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, ulcer), pãta (attaint, blemish, cloud, foul, maculate, Mark, slop, smear, smirch, soil, speckle, splash, splatter, spoil, spot, stain, sully), negru de fum (carbon black, monarch), murdãrie (contamination, corruption, defilement, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dishonesty, dung, filth, filthiness, foulness, greasiness, grime, litter, maculation, mess, muck, nastiness, naughty words, offscourings, ordure, puddle, refuse, rust, smudge, smutch, soil, squalidity), murdãri (bedraggle, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, defile, foul, litter, mess, muck, muddy, pollute, puddle, slop, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, splash, splatter, spot, stain, sully, tarnish), mãlurã (blight, brand), funingine (grime, smoke, soot), înnegri (black, black out, blacken, smutch). (various references)

Russian 

сажа (carbon black, grime, smoke-black, soot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pornografija (porn, pornography), garava mrlja. (various references)

Spanish

tizón (bunt). (various references)

Swedish

sotfläck, oanständighet (bawd, foulness, immodesty, impropriety, indecency, lewdness, naughtiness, obscenity, scurrility). (various references)

Turkish

sürme hastalığı (wheat rust), pislik (contamination, crap, crud, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mess, mire, muck, nastiness, offscourings, ordure, pollution, scum, scurvy, smear, soil, sordidness, squalor, uncleanliness), kurum (airs, conceit, corporation, establishment, foundation, haughtiness, institute, institution, pose, shop, soot, swagger, vanity), karalamak (bedaub, besmear, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot out, breathe upon, calumniate, chalk out, dash, dash down, dash off, denigrate, doodle, draw, line through, pollute, rule smth. out, scandalize, score out, scrabble, scratch, scribble, scribble down, smudge, strike through), kara çalmak (blacken, slander), kara (black, earth, ground, ivory black, land, nigr-, overland, sable, shore, sooty, terra firma, territorial), is yapmak (smoke, soot), is (black, soot), iftira etmek (asperse, back bite, backbite, be defamatory of smb., bespatter, calumniate, cast a slur on, cast the blame, defame, denigrate, malign, put a slur on, scandalize, slander, speak evil of, traduce, vilify), açık saçık konuşma (ribaldry). (various references)

Ukrainian

сажа (black, crock, soot), непристойність (bawdry, coarseness, filth, immodesty, impurity, indecency, lewdness, obsceneness, obscenity, opprobriousness, ordure, salacity, scurrility), брудна пляма (smudge, smutch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vết nhọ nhọ n�"i lời nói tục tĩu. (various references)

Welsh

parddu (fire-black, soot). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "smut": smutch, smutched, smutches, smutchier, smutchiest, smutching, smutchy, smuts, smutted, smuttier, smuttiest, smuttily, smuttiness, smuttinesses, smutting, smutty. (additional references)

Words ending with "smut": antismut, besmut. (additional references)

Words containing "smut": besmuts, besmutted, besmutting, bismuth, bismuthic, bismuths, transmutable, transmutation, transmutations, transmutative, transmute, transmuted, transmutes, transmuting. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Smut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amut, Asmat, emut, esut, Gmut, Ismat, Sammut, samot, saut, semtum, seut, skut, smat, Smedt, smet, smmap, smo, smoat, smod, smt, smuch, s'much, smud, smue, smuth, smutt, snuit, snut, snute, snuth, sumr, sumt, sumu, sutt, swut, Xmu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: must, muts, stum.

-1 letter: mus, mut, sum, uts.

-2 letters: mu, um, us, ut.

+1 letter: mauts, musth, musts, musty, mutes, mutts, smuts, strum, stump, stums, tumps.

+2 letters: autism, besmut, custom, datums, estrum, fumets, gamuts, litmus, meatus, miscut, moults, mounts, mouths, muftis, mulcts, muscat, musket, muskit, musted, mustee, muster, musths, mutase, mutest, mutism, mutons, ostium, scutum, septum, smutch, smutty, sputum, struma, strums, stumps, stumpy, submit, summit, thrums, thumbs, thumps, thymus, truism, trumps, tumors, upmost, utmost.