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Smuts

noun

1.

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

Smut

noun

1.

A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink. Synonyms: carbon black, crock, 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. Synonym: smut fungus.

4.

An offensive or indecent word or phrase. Synonyms: dirty word, filth, obscenity, vulgarism.

5.

Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire. Synonyms: erotica, porn, porno, pornography.

verb

(past & past part. smutted; pres. part. smutting)

1.

Make obscene.

2.

Stain with a dirty substance, such as soot.

3.

Become affected with smut.

4.

Affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn.

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"Smuts" Quotes from Famous Books

... spring on the Sunday joint. You hear the exclamations of the mistress (perhaps a bride,—house newly furnished) when, with white apron and cap, she ventured into the drawing-room, and was straightway saluted by a joyous dance of those monads called vulgarly "smuts." You feel manly indignation at the brute of a bridegroom who rushes out from the door, with the smuts dancing after him, and swears, "Smoked out again! By the Arch-smoker himself, I'll go and dine at ...

— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... SANNC delegation keen to make its mark on the peace negotiations in 1919. This time Plaatje managed to get as far as the prime minister, Lloyd George, "the Welsh wizard". Lloyd George was duly impressed with Plaatje and undertook to present his case to General Jan Smuts in the South African government, a supposedly liberal fellow-traveller. But Smuts, whose notions of liberalism were patronizingly segregationist, fobbed off Lloyd George ...

— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

... colonies continued for more than three years. Togo, a comparatively small colony, was captured by French and British troops shortly after the outbreak of the war. Under the Boer leaders, Generals Smuts and Botha, German Southwest Africa was conquered by July of 1915. Kamerun in West Africa was freed from German forces in 1916. The final chapter in the fight for the German colonies was written in December of 1917, when an army from British South Africa, in cooeperation with ...

— A School History of the Great War • Albert E. McKinley, Charles A. Coulomb, and Armand J. Gerson

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