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Grammar : Adj
Spell : smuht-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsmʌt i



Definition of smutty

Origin :
  • 1590s, "soiled with smut" (of grain); 1660s, "indecent," from smut + -y (2). Related: Smuttily; smuttiness. Smutty-nosed in ornithology means "having black nostrils."
  • adj obscene, vulgar
Example sentences :
  • Smutty enough we found the reeking pit, as we inhaled the stifling, close atmosphere.
  • Extract from : « Folly as It Flies » by Fanny Fern
  • Counting Malaga, a little islet attached to Smutty Nose by a breakwater, and there are eight islands in the cluster.
  • Extract from : « Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast » by Samuel Adams Drake
  • Connected with Smutty Nose by a stone-wall there is another little bit of island, called Malaga.
  • Extract from : « Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2 » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The site has Smutty Nose and Star opposite, with a road (that is, a water-road) between, varying from half a mile to a mile.
  • Extract from : « Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2 » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • About eleven o'clock, Mr. Thaxter took me over to Smutty Nose in his dory.
  • Extract from : « Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2 » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Smutty Nose, the most verdant of the islands, was one of the earliest settled.
  • Extract from : « Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast » by Samuel Adams Drake

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