SMUT, SMUTTY
ADJECTIVES
► BARNYARD smutty, obscene → 20C US sl.
► NASTY oriented toward sex or sex and excrement; smutty → E17
► OFF-COLOUR in poor taste, usually of smutty humour → L19 sl.
► PORNY lewd; smutty or obscene; pornographic → 1961 Brit. & US sl.
► RAUNCHY suggestive, sexually provocative, smutty, salacious → 1967 sl., orig. US
► SMOTRY smutty, grimy → 1407 obs.
► SMUGGY grimy, smutty → 1518 obs.
► SPURCIDICAL speaking dishonestly, obscenely, or smuttily; bawdy in speech → 1656 obs.
► ULTRAMARINE obscene, smutty → L19 sl.
NOUNS
► BLOW-BOOK a book containing indelicate or smutty pictures → 1708 obs.
► DAFF dallying, indelicate toying; loose conversation, smutty language → 1721 Sc. obs.
► SMUTCH soot, smut, grime, dirt → 1791
► THREAD OF BLUE any little smutty touch in song-singing, chatting, or piece of writing → 1824 Sc.
VERBS
► TALK THROUGH ONE’S FLY-BUTTONS to talk nonsense, or smut → 2002 sl. (Bk.)
► WORK BLUE to use obscene language; to peddle smut → 1990s Amer. sl.
► WRAP UP IN CLEAN LINEN to couch smutty or sordid matter in decent language → 18C colloq.
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