1. Sooty or dirty mark; a speck of dirt or sooty material
   "The mechanic's hands were covered in smuts from working on the engine";
   - crock [dialect]
    
2. Material depicting explicit sexual activity, intended to cause sexual arousal
   "she denounced the exposure of children to smut";
   - pornography, porn [informal], erotica
    
3. An offensive or indecent word or phrase
   "The letter was full of smut and vulgarisms";
   - obscenity, vulgarism, filth, dirty word
    
4. Destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
   "The corn crop was ruined by smut"
    
5. Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
   "The corn crop was devastated by a smut fungus infection";
   - smut fungus

1. Make obscene
   "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
    
2. Stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
   "The chimney sweep's clothes were smutted with soot"
    
3. Become affected with smut
   "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"
    
4. (farming) affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
   "The humid conditions smutted the corn crop"

Derived forms: smutting, smutted, smuts

Type of: alter, change, creation, creative activity, fungus, infect, mildew, modify, mold [N. Amer], mould [Brit, Cdn], plant disease, profanity, stain, taint

Part of: order Ustilaginales, Ustilaginales

Encyclopedia: Smut