Noun
- 1. Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts
- usage: South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950)
Noun
- 1. Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts
- usage: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
- 2. carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock, carbon, C, atomic number 6
- usage: destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
- 3. smut, plant disease
- usage: any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
- 4. smut, smut fungus, fungus
- usage: an offensive or indecent word or phrase
- 5. obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty word, profanity
- usage: creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
Verb
- 1. smut, change, alter, modify
- usage: make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
- 2. smut, stain
- usage: stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
- 3. smut, mold, mildew
- usage: become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"
- 4. smut, infect, taint
- usage: affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
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