Definitions for smut
smut
smut
Spelling: [smuht]
IPA: /smʌt/
Smut is a 4 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 35 anagrams from letters in smut (mstu).
Definitions for smut
noun
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a particle of soot; sooty matter.
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a black or dirty mark; smudge.
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indecent language or publications; obscenity.
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Plant Pathology.
a disease of plants, especially cereal grasses, characterized by the conversion of affected parts into black, powdery masses of spores, caused by fungi of the order Ustilaginales.
a fungus causing this disease.
verb (used with object)
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to soil or smudge.
verb (used without object)
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to become affected with smut, as a plant.
Origin of smut
1580-90; akin to earlier smit (Old English smitte), by association with smudge, smutch