smutty
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smut
(smŭt)n.
1.
a. A particle of dirt or soot: "the smoke and flames blowing from the lantern which peppered him with large black smuts" (Joyce Cary).
b. A smudge made by soot, smoke, or dirt.
2. Sexually explicit or prurient language or material, such as books or movies.
3. See smut fungus.
v. smut·ted, smut·ting, smuts
v.tr.
1. To blacken or smudge, as with smoke or grime.
2. To affect (a plant) with smut fungus.
v.intr.
To be or become blackened or smudged.
[From Middle English smotten, smutten, to defile.]
smut′ti·ly adv.
smut′ti·ness n.
smut′ty adj.
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smut•ty
(ˈsmʌt i)adj. -ti•er, -ti•est.
1. soiled with smut; grimy.
2. indecent or obscene, as talk or writing.
3. (of plants) affected with smut.
[1590–1600]
smut′ti•ly, adv.
smut′ti•ness, n.
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| Adj. | 1. | smutty - characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" dirty - (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth" |
| 2. |  smutty - soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" |
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smutty
adjective obscene, dirty, crude, coarse, filthy, indecent, vulgar, improper, blue, pornographic, raunchy (U.S. slang), suggestive, racy, lewd, risqué, X-rated (informal), bawdy, salacious, prurient, off colour, indelicate She said she detested smutty jokes.
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
smutty
adjective1. Covered or stained with or as if with dirt or other impurities:
2. Offensive to accepted standards of decency:
barnyard, bawdy, broad, coarse, dirty, Fescennine, filthy, foul, gross, lewd, nasty, obscene, profane, ribald, scatologic, scatological, scurrilous, vulgar.
Slang: raunchy.
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Translations
بَذيء
oplzlý
sjofel
klámfenginn
smutty
[ˈsmʌtɪ] ADJ (smuttier (compar) (smuttiest (superl)))1. (= dirty) → manchado
2. (= crude) → obsceno, verde, colorado (LAm)
a lot of smutty talk → muchas indecencias
smutty jokes → chistes mpl verdes
a lot of smutty talk → muchas indecencias
smutty jokes → chistes mpl verdes
3. (Bot) → atizonado
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
smutty
[ˈsmʌti] adj (= joke, book, film) → grossier/ière, obscènea smutty story → une histoire cochonne
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
smutty
adj (+er) (lit, fig) → schmutzig
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
smutty
[ˈsmʌtɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (crude) → osceno/a, sconcio/a; (dirty) → sporco/a, sudicio/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
smut
(smat) noun vulgar or indecent talk etc. There is too much smut on television nowadays!
ˈsmutty adjective (of a conversation, film etc) indecent. vulgar: He could not be prevented from telling smutty stories.
ˈsmuttiness nounKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.