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Smuts

noun

1.

South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950). Synonym: Jan Christian Smuts.

Smut

noun

1.

A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink. Synonyms: carbon black, crock, lampblack, soot.

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. Synonym: smut fungus.

4.

An offensive or indecent word or phrase. Synonyms: dirty word, filth, obscenity, vulgarism.

5.

Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire. Synonyms: erotica, porn, porno, pornography.

verb

(past & past part. smutted; pres. part. smutting)

1.

Make obscene.

2.

Stain with a dirty substance, such as soot.

3.

Become affected with smut.

4.

Affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn.

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"Smuts" Quotes from Famous Books

... comes, be sure. So I told him I would simply write an account of our visit, just as if I were doing a descriptive special article for THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. He seemed not to notice, but remarked that the smuts of London were not quite so bad as they used to be when he was a student here. I am to get his report tomorrow if he can possibly make it. In any case I am ...

— Dracula • Bram Stoker

... come back, come, if you please, A fiercer ghoul and ghaster, With all the glooms and smuts of Hell Behind you, I'm your master! You know I'm ...

— A Cluster of Grapes - A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry • Various

... cook—and no miner can explain why a camp cook is always fat—beamed from the mess-house door. A blacksmith, accepting the ready name of "Smuts," oiled the rusted wheels of his blower, and swore patiently and softly at a new helper as he selected the drills for sharpening. Three Burley drill runners tinkered with their machines, and scraped off the verdigris ...

— The Plunderer • Roy Norton

... was ended, these officers returned to England to form No. 26 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps, which was immediately dispatched to East Africa, and co-operated with the forces under the command of General Smuts. ...

— The War in the Air; Vol. 1 - The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force • Walter Raleigh

... relief wherever you be let your wind go free who knows if that pork chop I took with my cup of tea after was quite good with the heat I couldnt smell anything off it Im sure that queerlooking man in the porkbutchers is a great rogue I hope that lamp is not smoking fill my nose up with smuts better than having him leaving the gas on all night I couldnt rest easy in my bed in Gibraltar even getting up to see why am I so damned nervous about that though I like it in the winter its more company O Lord ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... looked as if the chest were an antique. Three of the china knobs, however, which served as handles were unhappily missing. Then there was a flap beneath the window which, when raised, arrested the progress of such smuts as failed to clear it in their descent to the boards. (Melancholy smothered a laugh and laid a wet cheek against her victim's.) The smuts were devilish—the terror by night, the arrow that flieth by day. Anthony believed in fresh ...

— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

... Oat Smuts. Let us go out into a near-by oat field and look for all the blackened heads of grain that we can find. How many are there? To count accurately let us select an area one foot square. We must look carefully, for many of these blackened heads are ...

— Agriculture for Beginners - Revised Edition • Charles William Burkett

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