smutty

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsmʌti/

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smutty (comparative smuttier, superlative smuttiest)

1. Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 62:

     She caught up the corner of her skirt and lifted the smutty coffee-pot from the stove.

2. Obscene, indecent.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC:
     Episode 12, The Cyclops

     And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia‎, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 178:

     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.

   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 , New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 433:

     Aarfy's buxom trollop had vanished with her smutty cameo ring, and Nurse Duckett was ashamed of him because he had refused to fly more combat missions and would cause a scandal.

3. Affected with the smut fungus.

• smuttily
• smuttiness

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

1. (transitive) To make dirty; to soil.
   • 1870 September 1, “Episodes in an Obscure Life”, in The Sunday Magazine, page 713:

     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.