<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A particle of soot; sooty matter.</li><li>A black or dirty mark; smudge.</li><li>Indecent language or publications; obscenity.</li><li>A disease of plants, especially cereal grasses, characterized by the conversion of affected parts into black, powdery masses of spores, caused by fungi of the order Ustilaginales.</li><li>A fungus causing this disease.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>To soil or smudge.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>To become affected with smut, as a plant.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>