smut
IPA: smˈʌt
noun
- (uncountable) Soot.
- (countable) A flake of ash or soot.
- (uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
- (uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
- Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
- (mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.
- (transitive) To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
- (intransitive) To become tainted by the smut fungus.
- (transitive) To clear of the smut fungus.
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