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smutty, a.|ˈsmʌtɪ|
Also 6–7 smootie, 7–8 smooty, 7 smuttie.
[f. smut n. or v. Cf. G. schmutzig.]
1. Of grain: Affected by smut.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. l. 70 That corne where it is, is called smootie corne. 1637Remnant Disc. Bees Title-p., The Causes and Cure of Blasted Wheat,..together with the Causes of Smutty Wheat. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 142 Usually if one stalk hath the ear smutty, all that arise from the same root are infected. 1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xii. (Dubl.) 143 The Wheat Plants in the Field, from whence these were taken, brought very few smutty Grains. 1769Reid Wks. (1863) I. 49/1, I put some smutty oats in water. 1803A. Hunter Georg. Ess. I. 182 There was a great deal of smutty wheat that year. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 401 The following experiment was made..on a smutty sample of wheat.
2. Soiled with, full of, characterized by, smut; dirty; blackened.
c1645Howell Lett. I. iv. v, I pray [you] leave the smutty Ayr of London, and com hither to breathe sweeter. 1665Hooke Microgr. 3 Like smutty daubings on a matt or uneven floor. a1704Compl. Servant-Maid (ed. 7) 119 Though your employment be greasie and smooty. 1716Pope Let. to Earl Burlington, He was a smutty dog yesterday, and cost me near two hours to wash the ink off his face. 1812Sir W. Elford in Friendships Miss Mitford (1882) I. iii. 85 On turning the corner, I see my paper is very smutty. 1880‘Vernon Lee’ Italy ii. iii. 57 A smutty portrait of her dressed in brown brocade.
3. Of the colour of smut; dusky; dark.
1648Earl Westmoreland Otia Sacra (1879) 148 The smooty shadows of some one Or others Trophees carv'd in stone. 1658Franck North. Mem. (1821) 302 Smooty and discoloured clouds. 1778W. Pryce Min. Cornub. 91 A smutty black, or black grey Crystal. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 288 It seems of a smutty yellow. 1863Kingsley Water-Bab. (1874) 40 Four or five smutty little cubs. 1890Spectator 30 Aug. 274 His once smutty plumage now showing rich colouring of black and white and brown.
4. Having the appearance or form of smut.
1667Milton P.L. iv. 817 The Smuttie graine With sudden blaze diffus'd, inflames the Aire. 1714Gay Trivia iii. 383 The nitrous Store is laid, the smutty Train With running blaze awakes the barrell'd Grain.
5. Indecent, immodest, impure, obscene.
1668Pepys Diary 20 June, I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday, and do not like it, it being very smutty. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 I. 146 It is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. 1706J. H. Browne Pipe of Tobacco Poems (1768) 124 The smutty tale Of country justice o'er his ale. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 124 He..puts the women to the blush with his smutty jokes and rude jeers. 1820Blackw. Mag. VI. 629 Mr. Hunt's smutty story of Rimini. 1851T. Parker in Weiss Life (1863) I. 390 He is smutty, and vulgar and low. 1894Tablet 16 June 920 It is only when the details are sensational or smutty that room is found for them in the columns of the great dailies.
6. Comb., as smutty-face, smutty-faced, smutty-nosed.
1675Cotton Burlesque upon B. i. 60 Ha! ha! old *Smutty-face, well said. 1899F. W. Bourne Billy Bray 99 (E.D.D.), He told the tempter, ‘old smutty-face’, to do this himself.
1833H. Martineau Tale of Tyne v. 96 The *smutty-faced crew. 1901Dundee Advertiser 7 June 4 The pride of Mr. Tory's farms are his..‘smutty-faced’ Dorset Down sheep.
1884Coues N. Amer. Birds 425 Perisoreus canadensis fumifrons,..*Smutty-nosed Jay. Ibid. 783 Priofinus melanurus, Smutty-nosed Shearwater. |