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smut

noun
  1. creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
    pornography
  2. an offensive or indecent word or phrase
    obscenity
  3. any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
    smut fungus
  4. destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
  5. a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
    crockcarbon blacklampblacksoot
verb
  1. affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
  2. become affected with smut
    “the corn smutted and could not be eaten”
  3. stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
  4. make obscene
    “This line in the play smuts the entire act”