What is the meaning of Smuts?

noun

• A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.
  • synonyms: carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock
• Destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores.
  • synonyms: smut
• Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales.
  • synonyms: smut, smut fungus
• An offensive or indecent word or phrase.
  • synonyms: obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty word
• Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire.
  • synonyms: pornography, porno, porn, erotica, smut
• South African statesman and soldier (1870-1950.
  • synonyms: Jan Christian Smuts

verb

• Make obscene.
  • usage: "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
  • synonyms: smut
• Stain with a dirty substance, such as soot.
  • synonyms: smut
• Become affected with smut.
  • usage: "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"
  • synonyms: smut
• Affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn.
  • synonyms: smut