smut

1 a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink [syn: carbon black, lampblack, soot]

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 [syn: smut fungus]

4 creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire [syn: pornography, porno, porn, erotica]

1 make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"

2 stain with a dirty substance, such as soot

3 become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"

4 affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn [also: smutting, smutted]

English

Pronunciation

• /smVt/

Noun

1. Soot.
2. Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way.
3. A promiscuous, trashy, classless woman.
4. Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.

Synonyms

• filth

Derived terms

• smutty

Translations

• French: scabreux qualifier sexually vulgar

Smut may refer to:

• Smut (fungus), a group of plant parasitic fungi
• Smut (comics), an adult British comic title dating back to the 1980s
• A colloquial term for obscenity
• A colloquial term for pornography
• "Smut" (song), satirical song on obscenity by Tom Lehrer

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