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smutty

/ˈsmʌti/

smutty adjective: soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.

Adjective

smutty (comparative smuttier, superlative smuttiest)

  1. Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.
    • She caught up the corner of her skirt and lifted the smutty coffee-pot from the stove.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 62
    • Yechiel Szeintuch, a professor of Yiddish literature at the Hebrew University, rejects any link between the smutty Stalags and the writings of K. Tzetnik as “an original sin.” He insists K. Tzetnik’s work was based on reality.2007 September 6, Isabel Kershner, “Israel’s Unexpected Spinoff From a Holocaust Trial”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...
  2. (figuratively) Obscene, indecent.
    • And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
    • Prayter said with a smile to the faces looking down, "Rilly—this train's a joke, isn't it!"
      A wag yelled, "Yes—a smutty one!"
      With raucous laughter in his ears, the parson turned and looked for Lace, feeling rather lonely.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 178
    Synonyms:
    off-color
  3. Affected with the smut fungus.

Verb

smutty (third-person singular simple present smutties, present participle smuttying, simple past and past participle smuttied)

  1. (transitive) To make dirty; to soil.
    • […] but went on smuttying her face and fingers at her little table, so littered with powder and blue and whitey-brown serpent cases that it looked like a Lilliputian arsenal.1870 September 1, “Episodes in an Obscure Life”, in The Sunday Magazine, page 713

smutty meaning in Malayalam

smutty in Malayalam

rude, vulgar, crude
ദുഷിച്ച, അശ്ലീലമായ, അസഭ്യമായ, ആഭാസമായ, ഗ്രാമ്യമായ, ആഭാസശെെലിയിലുള്ള

Synonyms of smutty

Forms of smutty

Adjective
comparativesmuttier
superlativesmuttiest
Verb
third-person singular presentsmutties
present participlesmuttying
past participlesmuttied
pastsmuttied

Origin of smutty

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

Words formed from smutty

Words that rhyme with smutty

Questions about smutty

What does smutty mean?
Smutty means soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.
What is smutty in Malayalam?
Smutty in Malayalam is ദുഷിച്ച, അശ്ലീലമായ, അസഭ്യമായ. See Smutty meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is smutty?
Smutty can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce smutty?
Smutty is pronounced /ˈsmʌti/ (UK).

Words near smutty in the dictionary

  1. smuttiness
  2. smuttinesses
  3. smutting
  4. smuttings
  5. SmutTok
  6. smutty
  7. smuttying
  8. SMV
  9. SMVs
  10. smvt
  11. SMW

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: smutty (page history and authors); smutty (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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