Meaning

3 senses
  1. Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.

    soiled with dirt or soot

  2. (figuratively)Obscene, indecent.

    непристо́йныйnepristójnyj

  3. Affected with the smut fungus.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. As the night wore on and Tom drank more and more, his jokes got progressively smuttier.

Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
obscene:

Origin

From smut + -y. Related to German schmutzig (“filthy, dirty, smutty”).

From smut + -y. Related to German schmutzig (“filthy, dirty, smutty”).

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Forms

smuttier, smuttiest
Comparativesmuttier Lesson
Superlativesmuttiest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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