Smut (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a particle of soot; sooty matter.
  2. a black or dirty mark; smudge.
  3. indecent language or publications; obscenity.
  4. Plant Pathology.
    • a disease of plants, especially cereal grasses, characterized by the conversion of affected parts into black, powdery masses of spores, caused by fungi of the order Ustilaginales.
    • a fungus causing this disease.
verb (used with object), smut·ted, smut·ting.
  1. to soil or smudge.
verb (used without object), smut·ted, smut·ting.
  1. to become affected with smut, as a plant.
noun
  1. a small dark smudge or stain, esp one caused by soot
  2. a speck of soot or dirt
  3. something obscene or indecent
    • any of various fungal diseases of flowering plants, esp cereals, in which black sooty masses of spores cover the affected parts
    • any parasitic basidiomycetous fungus of the order Ustilaginales that causes such a disease
  5. a minute midge or other insect relished by trout
verb smuts, smutting or smutted
  1. to mark or become marked or smudged, as with soot
  2. to affect (grain) or (of grain) to be affected with smut
  3. to remove smut from (grain)
  4. to make obscene
  5. to emit soot or smut
  6. (of trout) to feed voraciously on smuts
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