1. (

• carbon_black ,
• lampblack ,
• soot ,
• smut ,
• crock

) a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink ;

2. (

• smut

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

3. (

• smut ,
• smut_fungus

) any fungus of the order Ustilaginales ;

4. (

• obscenity ,
• smut ,
• vulgarism ,
• filth ,
• dirty_word

) an offensive or indecent word or phrase ;

5. (

• 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 ;

1. (

• smut ,

) make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act" ;

2. (

• smut

) stain with a dirty substance, such as soot ;

3. (

• smut ,

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

4. (

• smut

) affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn ;