[smut] vb smut.ted ; smut.ting [prob. alter. of earlier smot to stain, fr. ME smotten; akin to MHG smutzen to stain] vt (1587) 1: to stain or taint with smut
2: to affect (a crop or plant) with smut ~ vi: to become affected by smut
[2]smut n (1664) 1: matter that soils or blackens; specif: a particle of soot
2: any of various destructive diseases esp. of cereal grasses caused by parasitic fungi (order Ustilaginales) and marked by transformation of plant organs into dark masses of spores; also: a fungus causing a smut
3: obscene language or matter