smuts

Fungal crop blights

Smuts are small particles of soot or dirt, or the dark marks they leave: smuts from the chimney settled on the laundry.

In agriculture, smut is a fungal disease that turns grain crops black and powdery.

The word also means obscene or pornographic material: reading smuts, talking smuts.

As a verb, to smut is to mark with smuts or to affect grain with the fungal disease.

obscenity

pornography

Sexually explicit arousing material

indecency · sleaze · raunchiness · ribaldry · bawdiness · titillation · erotica · filth · nastiness · crudeness

fungus

bunt

Ball-tapping technique

  • grainCereal plant's harvest unit
  • wheatCereal crop for flour
  • cornCereal grown on cobs

barley · spores · infection · blight · crop · mold · disease · rust · pathogen · harvest

soot

chimney

Vertical smoke passage

ash · creosote · fireplace · cinders · char · furnace · exhaust · smoke · burning · grit

marks

stains

Discolorations on surfaces

blotches · soiling · discoloration · blemish · spots · residue · tarnish · blackening · dirty · sooty

Categories
Opposites
cleanliness/dirt

smutscleanliness

Absence of dirt

spotlessness · purities · purity · immaculateness · pristineness

plant health

smutsvigor

Active physical strength

flourishing · thriving · purities · bloom · fruitfulness

moral decency

smutsdecency

Moral appropriateness in behavior

wholesomeness · purities · propriety · modesty · virtue

Family

smut, smutty, smuttiness, smutted

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13