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smutty

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smut  (smt)
n.
1.
a. A particle of dirt.
b. A smudge made by soot, smoke, or dirt.
2.
a. Obscenity in speech or writing.
b. Pornography.
3.
a. Any of various plant diseases, especially of cereal grasses, caused by parasitic fungi of the order Ustilaginales that form black powdery masses of spores on the affected parts.
b. A fungus causing such a disease.
v. smut·ted, smut·ting, smuts
v.tr.
1. To blacken or smudge, as with smoke or grime.
2. To affect (a plant) with smut.
3. To free (grain, for example) from smut.
4. To make obscene.
v.intr.
1. To emit smut.
2. To be or become blackened or smudged.
3. To become affected with smut, as a plant.

[From Middle English smotten, smutten, to defile.]

smutti·ly adv.
smutti·ness n.
smutty adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.smutty - characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"
dirty - (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth"
2.smutty - soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
Translations
smutty [ˈsmʌtɪ] adj (fig) → verde, obsceno
smutty [ˈsmʌtɪ] adj (fig) → grossier/ière, obscène
smutty [ˈsmʌtɪ] adj (fig) (joke, book) → schmutzig
smutty [ˈsmʌtɪ] adj (fig) → osceno/a, indecente


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Now all the pig family are pink, or pink with black spots, but this pig child was smutty black all over; when it had been popped into a tub, it proved to be Yock-yock.
We found Miss Jellyby trying to warm herself at the fire in the writing- room, which Priscilla was then lighting with a smutty parlour candlestick, throwing the candle in to make it burn better.
At the end of the court, the corner of a low, smutty, stone shed, apparently part of some workshop, peeped from behind the hoarding.
 
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