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Type Words
Synonyms dirty word, filth, obscenity, vulgarism
Type of profanity
Has types bawdy, scatology, bawdry
Derivation smutty
Type Words
Synonyms carbon black, crock, lampblack, soot
Type of c, atomic number 6, carbon
Type Words
Synonyms smut fungus
Type of fungus
Has types sphacelotheca, sphacelotheca reiliana, urocystis cepulae, corn smut, bunt, tilletia foetida, tilletia caries, head smut, onion smut, genus sphacelotheca, flag smut fungus, loose smut, cornsmut, stinking smut, covered smut
Type Words
Synonyms erotica, porn, porno, pornography
Type of creative activity, creation
Has types kiddy porn, kiddie porn, child pornography
Derivation smutty
Type Words
Type of taint, infect
Type Words
Type of mildew, mold


the corn smutted and could not be eaten.
Type Words
Type of plant disease
Has types bunt, loose smut, green smut, flag smut, false smut, stinking smut
Type Words
Type of modify, change, alter


This line in the play smuts the entire act.
Type Words
Type of stain

Examples of smut

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Corn smut is an airborne fungus found most frequently on ears, tassels and nodes.
From the sciencedaily.com
So far, no effective means of combating the maize smut pathogen has been found.
From the sciencedaily.com
Less familiar, perhaps, are the tales of the needless smut and the blue piddle.
From the newscientist.com
It doesn't prevent Channel Five from regularly broadcasting smut, for example.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
The PTC also has pressured advertisers to drop their funding of smut TV for youths.
From the washingtontimes.com
Sometimes they would be fondled, sometimes subjected to smut-talk, sometimes caned.
From the guardian.co.uk
It's about time we got tough with those greedy smut pushers and cleaned up America.
From the time.com
The fact is that the smut and smoke from this practice are an unmitigated nuisance.
From the newscientist.com
Critics will say that this is some sort of smut fest, but they're not actually here.
From the ocregister.com
More examples
  • Carbon black: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
  • Make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
  • Destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
  • Stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
  • Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
  • Become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"
  • Affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
  • Obscenity: an offensive or indecent word or phrase
  • Smut was a British adult comic that was launched in the late 1980s. "Smut" is a slang word - most common in Britain - for any form of media that is considered profane or offensive, particularly with regards to sexual content. Smut comic is named as such for a good reason.