smut

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (uncountable) Soot.
2. (countable) A flake of ash or soot.
3. (uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
4. (uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
5. (countable, uncountable) Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
6. (countable, uncountable) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
7. (archaic, countable, slang) A copper boiler.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.
2. (transitive) To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
3. (intransitive) To become tainted by the smut fungus.
4. (transitive) To clear of the smut fungus.

Conceptes

emmascarar

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pornografia

càries

vulgaritat

obscenitat

vulgarisme

porno

sutge

ensutjar

Sinònims

soot

smudge

filth

crock

stain

obscenity

blot

porno

spot

smirch

blemish

carbon black

mildew

smear

lampblack

porn

ergot

slur

speck

speckle

splotch

blight

vulgarism

blotch

moil

blur

dirty word

smut fungus

pornography

ribaldry

rust

erotica

swinish trick

flag smut

head smut

raunch

stripe blight

rotten act

inferior coal

faulty coal

bad mark

smut-fungus

bawdiness

bawdry

bawdy

besmirch

black

blacken

brand

crap

Traduccions

obscenidad

Dreck

καπνιά

Schmutz

vuiligheid

tizne

vulgaridad

obscénité

سُخَام

αισχρολογίες

Schmutzliteratur

سِنَاج

pornographie

is

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/smʌt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: smutten

Cognat amb anglès antic: smitta

Cognat amb anglès antic: besmītan

In summary

From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz.
Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).