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单词 smut
释义

smut

1 of 2

verb

ˈsmət How to pronounce smut (audio)
smutted; smutting

transitive verb

1
: to stain or taint with smut
2
: to affect (a crop or plant) with smut

intransitive verb

: to become affected by smut

smut

2 of 2

noun

1
: matter that soils or blackens
specifically : a particle of soot
2
: any of various destructive diseases especially of cereal grasses caused by parasitic basidiomycetous fungi (order Ustilaginales) and marked by transformation of plant parts into dark masses of spores
also : a fungus causing a smut
3
: obscene language or matter

Synonyms

Noun

  • crud
  • dirt
  • filth
  • grime
  • gunk
  • muck
  • soil
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Example Sentences

Noun Smut is not allowed in this house. obscenity laws that aimed to stamp out smut
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
More cases take the detective’s attention: a teenage girl is found slain in a park; a smut peddler falls to death from a roof. Tom Nolan, WSJ, 27 May 2022 The prized delicacy can be found on tostadas at Tumerico in Tucson, where where the restaurant also sells the corn smut in jars. Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2022 An upstart feminist starts a revolutionary magazine after partnering with a publisher who specializes in smut in the new trailer for the upcoming HBO Max series, Minx, premiering on March 17. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2022 Spicy BookTok is the sister kingdom to the smut queens of Bookstagram. Jenny Singer, Glamour, 14 Feb. 2022 The upshot seems both obvious and hard to argue with: In a society with so much to answer for, so much real indecency and genuine cause for moral outrage, why the uproar over a few minutes of amateur smut? Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021 This phrase is applied to newspapers which delight in sensations, crime, scandal, smut, funny pictures, caricatures and malicious or frivolous gossip about persons and things of no public concern. Nicholas Lemann, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020 This phrase is applied to newspapers which delight in sensations, crime, scandal, smut, funny pictures, caricatures and malicious or frivolous gossip about persons and things of no public concern. Nicholas Lemann, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020 The grill turned a Caesar salad into a dank brown and green mess unrecognizable as a Caesar or a salad, and a stiff, dry rabbit roulade came with a huitlacoche custard that sapped its namesake of its corn-smut funkiness. Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 8 July 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Verb

probably alteration of earlier smot to stain, from Middle English smotten; akin to Middle High German smutzen to stain

First Known Use

Verb

1587, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Noun

1664, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

smut

noun

ˈsmət How to pronounce smut (audio)
1
: something (as a particle of soot) that soils or blackens
2
: a destructive disease of plants (as cereal grasses) that is caused by a fungus
3
: a fungus that causes smut

Medical Definition

smut

noun

ˈsmət How to pronounce smut (audio)
: any of various destructive diseases especially of cereal grasses caused by parasitic fungi (order Ustilaginales)
also : a fungus causing a smut

smut 1 of 2

noun

1
as in soil
foul matter that mars the purity or cleanliness of something once a year they cleaned all of the smut out of the chimney

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • soil
  • dirt
  • muck
  • filth
  • sewage
  • sludge
  • garbage
  • grime
  • dust
  • crud
  • gunk
  • junk
  • litter
  • trash
  • rubbish
  • sewerage
  • scum
  • dross
  • swill
  • soot
  • slime
  • refuse
  • dirtiness
  • nastiness
  • waste
  • foulness
  • scrap
  • dustiness
  • crock
  • uncleanliness
  • filthiness
  • grubbiness
  • uncleanness
  • griminess
  • dinginess
  • squalidness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • cleanliness
  • cleanness
2
as in vulgarity
the quality or state of being obscene the talk-show host is famous for shows filled with smut and scandal

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • vulgarity
  • grossness
  • obscenity
  • suggestiveness
  • raunch
  • filth
  • foulness
  • crudeness
  • ribaldry
  • profanity
  • dirtiness
  • lewdness
  • coarseness
  • bawdiness
  • raunchiness
  • smuttiness
  • impurity
  • lasciviousness
  • indecency
  • nastiness
  • filthiness
  • naughtiness
  • crudity
  • wantonness
  • offensiveness
  • abusiveness
  • dirt
  • distastefulness
  • blueness
  • lowness
  • atrocity
  • impureness
  • perversity
  • raciness
  • lechery
  • broadness
  • perversion
  • indelicacy
  • kinkiness
  • wickedness
  • unpleasantness
  • earthiness
  • perverseness
  • immodesty
  • unacceptability
  • depravity
  • saltiness
  • undesirability
  • obnoxiousness
  • repugnance
  • repulsiveness
  • infamy
  • loathsomeness
  • reprehensibility
  • indecorousness
  • unbecomingness
  • gaminess
  • objectionableness
  • pervertedness
  • indelicateness
  • repellency
  • depravedness
  • reprehensibleness
  • scurrilousness
  • exceptionability
  • atrociousness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • prudery
  • puritanism
  • prudishness
  • primness
  • priggishness
  • decency
  • decorum
  • correctness
  • fitness
  • purity
  • suitability
  • appropriateness
  • seemliness
  • priggery
  • perfection
  • suitableness
  • decorousness
  • spotlessness
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smut

2 of 2

verb

as in to dirty

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • dirty
  • soil
  • tar
  • smear
  • blur
  • smudge
  • cloud
  • taint
  • discolor
  • stain
  • pollute
  • poison
  • sully
  • tarnish
  • besmear
  • blemish
  • shame
  • spoil
  • mar
  • smirch
  • pervert
  • touch
  • besmirch
  • disgrace
  • dishonor
  • blacken
  • begrime
  • foul
  • debauch
  • darken
  • subvert
  • corrupt
  • discredit
  • deprave
  • degrade
  • vitiate
  • lower
  • debase
  • color
  • demean
  • cheapen
  • abase
  • sink
  • bastardize
  • demoralize
  • distort
  • twist

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • cleanse
  • purify
  • glorify
  • uplift
  • elevate
  • dignify
  • magnify
  • ennoble
  • enshrine
  • hallow
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