smut

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Soot. uncountable
  2. A flake of ash or soot. countable
    — She reached it soon after half-past two. She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation. But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly.
  3. Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. uncountable
    — The semiology of smut remains fairly unchanging: pasties, thongs, fetishwear-lite, simulated masturbation with the most unlikely of objects.
  4. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity. uncountable
    — He does not stand upon decency […] but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.
  5. Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused. countable,uncountable
    — If the petals of your garden dianthus (pinks) are stained brown, they too are victims of similar smut.
  6. Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults. countable,uncountable
  7. A copper boiler. archaic,countable,slang
动词 v.
  1. To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt. ambitransitive
    — it bears a very good Crop , and seldom smuts
  2. To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus. transitive
    — Mildew also falls upon Corn, and smuts it
  3. To become tainted by the smut fungus. intransitive
    — It smutted to a far greater degree than the year before, say three fourths, or more. I obtained but little more than the seed sown, and that was handsome wheat. This failure I imputed to the same supposed cause which operated the last year.
  4. To clear of the smut fungus. transitive
    — to smut grain for the mill

词形变化

smuts plural smuts present,singular,third-person smutting participle,present smutted participle,past smutted past

词汇关系

衍生词
antismut barley smut besmut corn smut cybersmut false loose smut hetsmut loose smut onion smut smut-ball smutfest smutfic smut fungus smuthound smutless smutmonger smutproof smutter smutty Treksmut

词源

词源 1
From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz.
Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).
词源 2
From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz.
Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).
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