smut

English

Etymology

From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”).

Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /smʌt/

Noun

smut (countable and uncountable, plural smuts)

(uncountable) Soot.
(countable) A flake of ash or soot.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 56:
  “You can rely on me!” Varya said, still more earnestly and enthusiastically, still leaning heavily on the counter, noticing briefly and forgetting at once that her bare elbow had crushed a stray smut from the Primus mender's booth.
(uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
(uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
- Addison
  He does not stand upon decency […] but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.
(derogatory) A promiscuous woman.
Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
(mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.

Synonyms

(soot): filth
(sexually vulgar or pornographic material): filth

(promiscuous woman): slut

Derived terms

Translations

soot — see soot

sexually vulgar or pornographic material

Finnish: porno (fi)
French: cul (fr) m
Irish: gáirsiúlacht f, graostacht f, salachar m, cáidheadas m

Russian: по́шлость (ru) f (póšlostʹ), поха́бство (ru) n (poxábstvo), поха́бщина (ru) f (poxábščina), непристо́йность (ru) n (nepristójnostʹ)
Sundanese: cawokah
Swedish: snusk (sv) n

promiscuous woman — see slut

range of fungi

Finnish: noki (fi)
Maori: paura

Russian: головня́ (ru) f (golovnjá), ржа́вчина (ru) f (ržávčina)

Verb

smut (third-person singular simple present smuts, present participle smutting, simple past and past participle smutted)

To stain (or be stained) with soot etc.
(intransitive) To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)
To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
To clear of the smut fungus.
to smut grain for the mill

Anagrams

MTUs, UMTS, UTMS, must, stum, tums

Irish

Noun

smut m (genitive singular smuit, nominative plural smuit)

Declension

Declension of smut

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	smut	smuit
Vocative	a smuit	a smuta
Genitive	smuit	smut
Dative	smut	smuit

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an smut	na smuit
Genitive	an smuit	na smut
Dative	leis an smut don smut	leis na smuit

Synonyms

(rostrum): rostram

Derived terms

Terms derived from smut

smutach, smutúil (“stumpy; curtailed, short; snouty; pug-nosed; sulky”, adjective)
smutaireacht f (“(act of) sulking”)

smután m (“stump; chunk of wood”)
smutmhadra m (“pug-dog”)

Verb

smut (present analytic smutann, future analytic smutfaidh, verbal noun smutadh, past participle smuta)

(transitive) truncate, shorten
Alternative form of smiot (“hit, strike; smash; chip, chop; pare, whittle; fritter”)

Conjugation

First Conjugation (A)

		singular			plural			relative	autonomous
		first	second	third	first	second	third	relative	autonomous
indicative	present	smutaim	smutann tú; smutair^†	smutann sé, sí	smutaimid	smutann sibh	smutann siad; smutaid^†	a smutann; a smutas	smutar
	past	smut mé; smutas	smut tú; smutais	smut sé, sí	smutamar; smut muid	smut sibh; smutabhair	smut siad; smutadar	a smut / ar smut*	smutadh
	past habitual	smutainn	smutá	smutadh sé, sí	smutaimis; smutadh muid	smutadh sibh	smutaidís; smutadh siad	a smutadh / ar smutadh*	smutaí
	future	smutfaidh mé; smutfad	smutfaidh tú; smutfair^†	smutfaidh sé, sí	smutfaimid; smutfaidh muid	smutfaidh sibh	smutfaidh siad; smutfaid^†	a smutfaidh; a smutfas	smutfar
conditional		smutfainn	smutfá	smutfadh sé, sí	smutfaimis; smutfadh muid	smutfadh sibh	smutfaidís; smutfadh siad	a smutfadh / ar smutfadh*	smutfaí
subjunctive	present	go smuta mé; go smutad^†	go smuta tú; go smutair^†	go smuta sé, sí	go smutaimid; go smuta muid	go smuta sibh	go smuta siad; go smutaid^†	—	go smutar
subjunctive	past	dá smutainn	dá smutá	dá smutadh sé, sí	dá smutaimis; dá smutadh muid	dá smutadh sibh	dá smutaidís; dá smutadh siad	—	dá smutaí
imperative		smutaim	smut	smutadh sé, sí	smutaimis	smutaigí; smutaidh^†	smutaidís	—	smutar
verbal noun		smutadh
past participle		smuta

* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form

References

"smut" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.