Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - smut
Smut
smut
n. & v. --n. 1 a small flake of soot etc. 2 a spot or smudge made by this. 3 obscene or lascivious talk, pictures, or stories. 4 a a fungous disease of cereals in which parts of the ear change to black powder. b any fungus of the order Ustilaginales causing this. --v. (smutted, smutting) 1 tr. mark with smuts. 2 tr. infect (a plant) with smut. 3 intr. (of a plant) contract smut. Phrases and idioms smut-ball Agriculture grain affected by smut. smut-mill a machine for freeing grain from smut. Derivatives smutty adj. (smuttier, smuttiest) (esp. in sense 3 of n.). smuttily adv. smuttiness n. Etymology: rel. to LG smutt, MHG smutz(en) etc.: cf. OE smitt(ian) smear, and SMUDGE(1)
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I. verb (~ted; ~ting) Etymology: probably alteration of earlier smot to stain, from Middle English smotten; akin to Middle High German ~zen to stain Date: 1587 transitive verb to stain or taint with ~, to affect (a crop or plant) with ~, intransitive verb to become affected by ~, II. noun Date: 1664 matter that soils or blackens, any of various destructive diseases especially of cereal grasses caused by parasitic basidiomycetous fungi (order Ustilaginales) and marked by transformation of plant parts into dark masses of spores, obscene language or matter ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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