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| smut [ smut ] |
noun (plural smuts) |
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1. obscene material: obscene jokes, stories, or pictures
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2. small piece of soot: a speck of dirt or soot
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3. plants plant disease: a plant disease, especially of cereals and other grasses, caused by fungi and characterized by sooty black masses of spores forming on leaves and other parts
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4. fungi fungus causing disease: a parasitic fungus that causes smut. Order Ustilaginales.
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verb (past and past participle smut·ted, present participle smut·ting, 3rd person present singular smuts) |
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1. transitive verb make something dirty: to mark or dirty something with smuts
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2. intransitive verb botany become affected with smut: to become affected with smut
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| [15th century. Ultimately < Germanic] |
