smut: [16] Smut is a member of a large but loosely-knit family of West Germanic words beginning with sm and ending in t or d that convey the general notion of ‘putting dirt on something’. Others include German schmutzen ‘get dirty’ and English smudge [15], and also English smite, which originally meant ‘smear’. Smut itself may have been borrowed from Low German smutt. => smite, smudge
smut (n.)
1660s, "black mark, stain," from verb smutten "debase, defile" (late 14c.), later "stain or mark with soot, etc." (1580s), cognate with Middle High German smotzen "make dirty," from West Germanic *smutt- (cognates: Middle High German smuz "grease, dirt;" German Schmutz "dirt," schmutzen "to make dirty"). The meaning "indecent or obscene language" is first attested 1660s.
实用例句
1. I find the media'sgrowing obsession with smut and sensation deplorable.
我发现媒体越来越沉湎于淫秽下流和耸人听闻的题材，这实在可悲。
来自柯林斯例句
2. There is smut on the windows.
窗户上有烟尘.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
3. There is a smut dealer just near the high school.
在那所高中附近,有个卖黄色书刊的人.
来自辞典例句
4. Here comes the smut, Martha. Dad is drunk and cursing heaven again.
