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Meaning of smut

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}, {smut},
           {crock}]
      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}, {smut
         fungus}]
      4: an offensive or indecent word or phrase [syn: {obscenity},
         {smut}, {vulgarism}, {filth}, {dirty word}]
      5: 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},
         {smut}]
      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

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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