smut

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

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

dirt

dirty

dirty joke

fungus

grime

grizzle

indecency

licentiousness

macula

mud

patch

salacity

scatology

smudginess

smuttiness

soil

sully

swinishness

taint

colly

bawdy talk

lampback

dirty or rotten act

Pronounced as (IPA)

/smʌt/

Etymology

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”).