smut: Meaning and Definition of

smut

1. a particle of soot; sooty matter.
2. a black or dirty mark; smudge.
3. indecent language or publications; obscenity.
1. a disease of plants, esp. cereal grasses, characterized by the conversion of affected parts into black, powdery masses of spores, caused by fungi of the order Ustilaginales.
2. a fungus causing this disease.

1. to soil or smudge.

1. to become affected with smut, as a plant.