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

1. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
   - carbon black, lampblack, soot, crock
    
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
   - smut fungus
    
4. An offensive or indecent word or phrase
   - obscenity, vulgarism, filth, dirty word
    
5. Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
   - pornography, erotica

1. Make obscene
   "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
    
2. Stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
    
3. Become affected with smut
   "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"
    
4. Affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn

See also: smutty

Type of: alter, atomic number 6, C, carbon, change, creation, creative activity, fungus, infect, mildew, modify, mold [N. Amer], mould [Brit, Cdn], national leader, plant disease, pongo [Brit], profanity, soldier, solon, stain, statesman, taint

Part of: order Ustilaginales, Ustilaginales

Encyclopedia: Smuts