smuttingn.
/ˈsmʌtɪŋ/ 1. The action of the verb in various senses, or the result of this.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun]
staining1530
stain1563
besmearing1574
attainture1608
soilurea1616
smutting1621
sullying1629
macula1649
black wash1856
smirching1862
blear1868
smudging1873
the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > smut or smutty condition
ustilago1578
smit1585
smutting1621
smuttiness1659
smut1665
bragc1682
burnt-eara1722
slain1788
dust-brand1850
stinking rust1861
stinking bunt1889
loose smut1890
stinking smut1891
dust1897
1621 G. Hakewill King David's Vow 165 Slander..being..the smutting of a mans good name.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Mddx. 189 A help hath been found out against the smooting of Wheat..I say the smooting of Wheat which makes it a Negro, as Mildew makes it a Dwarfe.
1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia 171 The smutting or blackness thence arising.
2. attributive, in terms relating to the cleaning of grain from smut, as smutting device, smutting machine, smutting room.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [adjective] > cleaning of grain
smutting1856
1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. 431/2 The screening or smutting machine.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2228/1 The outer shell of the conical smutting-device.
1892 Daily News 14 Jan. 3/2 The mills consisted of five blocks used as mills, warehouses, smutting rooms, store rooms, and engine and boiler house.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
smuttingadj.
1. Making black or gloomy.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > [adjective]
smutting1631
blackening1681
nigricanting?1715
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes i. vi. 4 in Wks. II This is better farre, then to weare Cypresse, Dull smutting gloues, or melancholy blacks.
2. Of fish: Rising at, or feeding on, smuts.
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the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > feeding on insects
smutting1899
nymphing1963
1899 19th Cent. Jan. 122 There is the ‘smutting’ fish [trout], greedily taking down the tiniest of insects.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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