noun
Meaning 1
Soot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: filth
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
smut
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A flake of ash or soot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: filth
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, phytopathology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, mining
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A copper boiler.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, slang
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: befoul, smutch, smutty, soil, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, contaminate, darken, defile, dirten, dirty, elt, file, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To become tainted by the smut fungus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 11
To clear of the smut fungus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to smut grain for the mill
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 12
creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pornography, porno, porn, erotica
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: creation, creative activity
Narrower terms: child pornography, kiddie porn, kiddy porn
noun
Meaning 13
an offensive or indecent word or phrase
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: obscenity, vulgarism, filth, dirty word
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: profanity
Narrower terms: bawdry, bawdy, scatology
noun
Meaning 14
any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: smut fungus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fungus
Narrower terms: covered smut, loose smut, cornsmut, corn smut, Sphacelotheca, genus Sphacelotheca, head smut, Sphacelotheca reiliana, bunt, Tilletia caries, stinking smut, Tilletia foetida, onion smut, Urocystis cepulae, flag smut fungus
noun
Meaning 15
destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plant disease
Narrower terms: loose smut, bunt, stinking smut, flag smut, green smut, false smut
noun
Meaning 16
a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: carbon black, lampblack, soot, crock
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: carbon, C, atomic number 6
verb
Meaning 17
affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: infect, taint
verb
Meaning 18
become affected with smut
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the corn smutted and could not be eaten
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mold, mildew
verb
Meaning 19
stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stain
verb
Meaning 20
make obscene
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- This line in the play smuts the entire act
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
History
Etymology
From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz. Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: porno — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- French: cul — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- German: Pornographie — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Irish: gáirsiúlacht — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Irish: graostacht — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Irish: salachar — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Irish: cáidheadas — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Italian: oscenità — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Macedonian: непристојност (nepristojnost) — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Macedonian: безобразност (bezobraznost) — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Russian: неприличие (nepriličije) — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Russian: поха́бство (poxábstvo) — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Russian: поха́бщина (poxábščina) — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Russian: непристо́йность (nepristójnostʹ) — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Sundanese: cawokah — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Swedish: snusk — sexually vulgar or pornographic material
- Bulgarian: главня (glavnja) — range of fungi
- Catalan: carbó — range of fungi
- Dutch: brandschimmel — range of fungi
- Finnish: noki — range of fungi
- French: charbon — range of fungi
- German: Brand — range of fungi
- Irish: dúchan — range of fungi
- Italian: carbone — range of fungi
- Macedonian: гламница (glamnica) — range of fungi
- Macedonian: гламна (glamna) — range of fungi
- Māori: paura — range of fungi
- Polish: głownia — range of fungi
- Portuguese: carvão — range of fungi
- Portuguese: morrão — range of fungi
- Russian: головня́ (golovnjá) — range of fungi
- Russian: ржа́вчина (ržávčina) — range of fungi
- Spanish: tizón — range of fungi
- Spanish: polvillo — range of fungi
- Swedish: sotsvamp — range of fungi
- Turkish: sürme — range of fungi
- Turkish: rastık — range of fungi
- Welsh: penddu — range of fungi