Overview of noun smuts

The noun smuts has 1 sense

• Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts -- (South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950))

Overview of noun smut

The noun smut has 5 senses

• carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock -- (a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink)


• smut -- (destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores)


• smut, smut fungus -- (any fungus of the order Ustilaginales)


• obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty word -- (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)


• pornography, porno, porn, erotica, smut -- (creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire)

Overview of verb smut

The verb smut has 4 senses

• smut -- (make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act")


• smut -- (stain with a dirty substance, such as soot)


• smut -- (become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be eaten")


• smut -- (affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn)