What is "smutting"

Smut \Smut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smutting.]

1. To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.

2. To taint with mildew, as grain.
   --Bacon.

3. To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.

4. To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.

vb. (present participle of smut English)

1. n. a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink [syn: carbon black, lampblack, soot]

2. destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores

3. any fungus of the order Ustilaginales [syn: smut fungus]

4. creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire [syn: pornography, porno, porn, erotica]

5. [also: smutting, smutted]

1. v. make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"

2. stain with a dirty substance, such as soot

3. become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"

4. affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn

5. [also: smutting, smutted]

See smut