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