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Smut v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smutting.]
1. To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.
2. To taint with mildew, as grain.
3. To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
4. To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.
smut
n 1: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally
of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
[syn: carbon black, lampblack, soot]
2: destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses)
caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of
spores
3: any fungus of the order Ustilaginales [syn: smut fungus]
4: creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no
literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual
desire [syn: pornography, porno, porn, erotica]
v 1: make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
2: stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
3: become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not
be eaten"
4: affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
[also: smutting, smutted]