smut

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

obscénité

pornographie

cochonnerie

crotte

cul

érotisme

grossièreté

suie

tache

cochonneries

détails scabreux

dire des grossièretés

grivoiseries

petite saleté

porno

saloperie

noir de carbone

Le noir de carbone

boue

le noir de carbone

charbon

Synonymes

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

Traductions

Dreck

Schmutz

obscenidad

καπνιά

vulgaridad

is

Schmutzliteratur

سُخَام

αισχρολογίες

emmascarar

😷

سِنَاج

vuiligheid

tizne

kirlenmek

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/smʌt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: smutten

Appartenant à ancien anglais: smitta

Appartenant à ancien anglais: 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”).