Found 2 items, similar to smutting.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: smutting smut n 1: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink [syn: carbon black, lampblack, soot] 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 [syn: smut fungus] 4: creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire [syn: pornography, porno, porn, erotica] [also: smutting, smutted] smut v 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 [also: smutting, smutted] smutting See smut
English → English (gcide) Definition: Smutting Smut \Smut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smutting.] 1. To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance. [1913 Webster] 2. To taint with mildew, as grain. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 3. To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish. [1913 Webster] 4. To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill. [1913 Webster]