Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Soot. · A flake of ash or soot. · Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material. · Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt. · To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus. · To become tainted by the smut fungus. · To clear of the smut fungus.
From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz. Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).
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