smutty
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
/ˈsmʌti/(UK)
Definition of smutty
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
-
Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.
“She caught up the corner of her skirt and lifted the smutty coffee-pot from the stove.”
“Yechiel Szeintuch, a professor of Yiddish literature at the Hebrew University, rejects any link between the smutty Stalags and the writings of K. Tzetnik as “an original sin.” He insists K. Tzetnik’s work was based on reality.”
See all 4 definitions Show less
adj
-
Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.
“She caught up the corner of her skirt and lifted the smutty coffee-pot from the stove.”
“Yechiel Szeintuch, a professor of Yiddish literature at the Hebrew University, rejects any link between the smutty Stalags and the writings of K. Tzetnik as “an original sin.” He insists K. Tzetnik’s work was based on reality.”
-
(figuratively)Obscene, indecent.
“And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts.”
“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.”
“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.”
- Affected with the smut fungus.
verb
-
(transitive)To make dirty; to soil.
“[…] 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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From smut + -y. Related to German schmutzig (“filthy, dirty, smutty”).
Words you can make from smutty
24 playable · top: MUSTY (10 pts)
Best play musty 10 points5-letter words
1 word4-letter words
8 words3-letter words
9 words2-letter words
5 wordsFind your best play with smutty
See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes smutty, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.