 smut |
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| 1. | [ noun ] (medicine) destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores | |
| Related terms: | plant_disease flag_smut bunt green_smut loose_smut | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (chemistry) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | |
| Synonyms: | lampblack soot carbon_black | |
| Related terms: | carbon | |
| 3. | [ verb ] affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn | |
| Related terms: | infect farming | |
| 4. | [ verb ] become affected with smut | |
| Examples: | "the corn smutted and could not be eaten" |
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| Related terms: | mold | |
| 5. | [ verb ] (color) stain with a dirty substance, such as soot | |
| Related terms: | stain carbon_black | |
| 6. | [ noun ] (law,criminal law,sexuality) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | |
| Synonyms: | porno porn erotica pornography | |
| Related terms: | creation vice_crime child_pornography | |
| 7. | [ verb ] make obscene | |
| Examples: | "This line in the play smuts the entire act" |
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| Related terms: | change pornography | |
| 8. | [ noun ] (botany) any fungus of the order Ustilaginales | |
| Synonyms: | smut_fungus | |
| Related terms: | fungus loose_smut bunt cornsmut Sphacelotheca head_smut covered_smut bunt onion_smut flag_smut_fungus Ustilaginales | |
| Similar spelling: |
smutty Smit Smyth Smtih Smoot smith smite Smidt Smythe smooth smithy smoothy Smithey |
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