• (British) IPA: /ˈsmʌti/

smutty (comparative smuttier, superlative smuttiest)

1. Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 62:

     She caught up the corner of her skirt and lifted the smutty coffee-pot from the stove.

2. Obscene, indecent.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630 ↗; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483 ↗:

     Episode 12, The Cyclops

     And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XI, p. 178,

     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.

3. Affected with the smut fungus.

• Spanish: tiznado

• Russian: непристо́йный
• Spanish: obsceno, indecente

smutty (smutties, present participle smuttying; past and past participle smuttied)

1. (transitive) To make dirty; to soil.