Smut - Wiktionary

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /smʌt/

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• (Northern England) IPA(key): /smʊt/
• Rhymes: -ʌt

Noun

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smut (countable and uncountable, plural smuts)

1. (uncountable) Soot. Synonym: filth
2. (countable) A flake of ash or soot.
   • 1915, Edgar Jepson, “The Reluctant Duke”, in Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 135: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.
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Harry Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 56:“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.
   • 2012, Kasey Michaels, A Masquerade in the Moonlight:“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.”
3. (uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. Synonym: filth
   • 2013 October 9, Suzanne Moore, “Sex is everywhere you look, but the semiology of smut never changes”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:The semiology of smut remains fairly unchanging: pasties, thongs, fetishwear-lite, simulated masturbation with the most unlikely of objects.
   • 2014 June 9, Hans Noel, “Polystate: A Not-So-Bad Book About a Very Bad Idea”, in Washington Monthly‎[2]: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.
4. (uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
   • 1711 June 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, May 25, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 39; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:He does not stand upon decency […] but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.The spelling has been modernized.
5. (phytopathology) Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
   • 2021 June 16, Phil Gates, “Country diary: in the fight to survive, red campion is a surprise battleground”, in The Guardian‎[3], →ISSN:If the petals of your garden dianthus (pinks) are stained brown, they too are victims of similar smut.
6. (mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
7. (countable, slang, archaic) A copper boiler.

Derived terms

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• barley smut
• corn smut
• false loose smut
• loose smut
• onion smut
• smut-ball
• smut fungus
• smutty

Translations

[edit] soot — see soot sexually vulgar or pornographic material

Finnish: porno (fi) French: cul (fr) m German: Pornographie (de) f Irish: gáirsiúlacht f, graostacht f, salachar m, cáidheadas m Italian: oscenità (it) f Macedonian: непристојност f (nepristojnost), безобразност f (bezobraznost) Russian: неприличие (ru) n (nepriličije), поха́бство (ru) n (poxábstvo), поха́бщина (ru) f (poxábščina), непристо́йность (ru) n (nepristójnostʹ) Sundanese: cawokah Swedish: snusk (sv) n

range of fungi

Bulgarian: главня (bg) f (glavnja) Catalan: carbó (ca) m Dutch: brandschimmel m Finnish: noki (fi) French: charbon (fr) m German: Brand (de) m (disease) Irish: dúchan f Italian: carbone (it) m Macedonian: гламница f (glamnica), гламна f (glamna) Māori: paura Polish: głownia (pl) f Portuguese: carvão (pt) m, morrão (pt) m Russian: головня́ (ru) f (golovnjá), ржа́вчина (ru) f (ržávčina) Spanish: tizón (es) m, polvillo (es) m Swedish: sotsvamp Turkish: sürme (tr), rastık (tr) Welsh: penddu m

Verb

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smut (third-person singular simple present smuts, present participle smutting, simple past and past participle smutted)

1. (ambitransitive) To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt. Synonyms: befoul, smutch, smutty, soil; see also Thesaurus:dirty
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:it bears a very good Crop , and seldom smuts
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 231:But the Nis did not forget it to the maids; for the following Sunday when they were going to the dance, be contrived, unknown to them, to smut their faces all over, so that when they got up to dance, every one that was there burst out a laughing at them.
2. (transitive) To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:Mildew also falls upon Corn, and smuts it
3. (intransitive) To become tainted by the smut fungus.
   • 1836, New England Farmer, volume 14, page 313:It smutted to a far greater degree than the year before, say three fourths, or more. I obtained but little more than the seed sown, and that was handsome wheat. This failure I imputed to the same supposed cause which operated the last year.
4. (transitive) To clear of the smut fungus. to smut grain for the mill

Anagrams

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• UMTS, MTUs, tums, stum, UTMs, UTMS, must, Stum

Danish

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Etymology

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See smutte.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): [ˈsmud]

Noun

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smut n (singular definite smuttet, plural indefinite smut)

1. a quick or spontaneous trip, visit, stay or errand etc. Synonyms: sviptur, smuttur

Declension

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neutergender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	smut	smuttet	smut	smuttene
genitive	smuts	smuttets	smuts	smuttenes

References

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• “smut” in Den Danske Ordbog

Irish

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈsˠmˠʊt̪ˠ/

Noun

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smut m (genitive singular smuit, nominative plural smuit)

1. stump; short piece; portion
2. snout
3. sulky expression, huff
4. (zoology) rostrum Synonym: rostram

Declension

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bare forms singular plural nominative smut smuit vocative a smuit a smuta genitive smuit smut dative smut smuit forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an smut na smuit genitive an smuit na smut dative leis an smutdon smut leis na smuit

Derived terms

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• Domhnach an smuit (“the Sunday after the beginning of Lent”)
• smutach (“stumpy”, adjective)
• smutaireacht f (“(act of) sulking”)
• smután m (“stump; chunk of wood”)
• smutmhadra m (“pug-dog”)
• smutúil (“stumpy”, adjective)

Verb

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smut (present analytic smutann, future analytic smutfaidh, verbal noun smutadh, past participle smuta)

1. (transitive) truncate, shorten
2. alternative form of smiot (“hit, strike; smash; chip, chop; pare, whittle; fritter”)

Conjugation

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indicative	singular			plural			direct relative	autonomous
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present	smutaim	smutann tú; smutair†	smutann sé, sí	smutaimid; smutann muid	smutann sibh	smutann siad; smutaid†	a smutann; a smutas	smutar
past	smut mé; smutas	smut tú; smutais	smut sé, sí	smutamar; smut muid	smut sibh; smutabhair	smut siad; smutadar	a smut	smutadh
past habitual	smutainn	smutá	smutadh sé, sí	smutaimis; smutadh muid	smutadh sibh	smutaidís; smutadh siad	a smutadh	smutaí
singular			plural			direct relative	autonomous
first	second	third	first	second	third
future	smutfaidh mé; smutfad	smutfaidh tú; smutfair†	smutfaidh sé, sí	smutfaimid; smutfaidh muid	smutfaidh sibh	smutfaidh siad; smutfaid†	a smutfaidh; a smutfas	smutfar
conditional	smutfainn	smutfá	smutfadh sé, sí	smutfaimis; smutfadh muid	smutfadh sibh	smutfaidís; smutfadh siad	a smutfadh	smutfaí
subjunctive	singular			plural			direct relative	autonomous
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present	go smuta mé; go smutad†	go smuta tú; go smutair†	go smuta sé, sí	go smutaimid; go smuta muid	go smuta sibh	go smuta siad; go smutaid†	—	go smutar
past	dá smutainn	dá smutá	dá smutadh sé, sí	dá smutaimis; dá smutadh muid	dá smutadh sibh	dá smutaidís; dá smutadh siad	—	dá smutaí
imperative	singular			plural			direct relative	autonomous
	first	second	third	first	second	third
—	smutaim	smut	smutadh sé, sí	smutaimis	smutaigí; smutaidh†	smutaidís	—	smutar
past participle	smuta
verbal noun	smutadh

† archaic or dialect form ‡ dependent form

Further reading

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• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “smut”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN