Meaning of Smut | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Soot.
   uncountable
2. A flake of ash or soot.
   countable
3. Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
   uncountable
4. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
   uncountable
5. Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
   countable, uncountable
6. Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
   countable, uncountable
7. A copper boiler.
   archaic, countable, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“She reached it soon after half-past two. She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation. But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly.”

““You can rely on me!” Varya said, still more earnestly and enthusiastically, still leaning heavily on the counter, noticing briefly and forgetting at once that her bare elbow had crushed a stray smut from the Primus mender's booth.”

““Do I have a smut on my nose, Mr. Donovan? You've been staring at me for a full minute. It's most disconcerting, you know.””

“The semiology of smut remains fairly unchanging: pasties, thongs, fetishwear-lite, simulated masturbation with the most unlikely of objects.”

“It is no use to say, well, your anthrostate requires smut to be shielded, but your neighbor’s antrhostate^([sic]) says he can show anything anywhere. The neighbor’s behavior affects you, so you have to have the same rules.”

“He does not stand upon decency […] but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.”

“If the petals of your garden dianthus (pinks) are stained brown, they too are victims of similar smut.”

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