Definitions for Smuts

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Spelling: [Dutch smœts; English smuhts]

IPA: /Dutch smœts; English smʌts/

Smuts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Smuts (msstu).

Definitions for Smuts

noun

1. Jan Christiaan [Dutch yahn kris-tee-ahn] /Dutch yɑn ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn/ (Show IPA), 1870–1950, South African statesman and general: prime minister 1919–24, 1939–48.
2. a particle of soot; sooty matter.
3. a black or dirty mark; smudge.
4. indecent language or publications; obscenity.
5. 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)

1. to soil or smudge.

verb (used without object)

1. to become affected with smut, as a plant.

Origin of Smuts

1580-90; akin to earlier smit (Old English smitte), by association with smudge, smutch

Examples for Smuts

General Smuts concurred fully with the opinion of General Hertzog.

General Smuts: The word "property" includes every form of property.

Smuts did not attend but various members of his Cabinet did.

Smuts the dreamer was again Smuts the fighter, with the fight of his life on his hands.

General Smuts: Is it your opinion that our proposal must be set aside?

The alterations are in the handwriting of Generals Smuts and Hertzog.

Smuts not only has a keen sense of humor but is swift on the retort.

I, of course, entirely believe what Generals Botha and Smuts have stated.

Smuts is essentially an out-of-doors person and his body is wiry and rangy.

I have already given you a hint of the Smuts personal appearance.