Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Soiled with smut, coal, soot, or the like.
  • Affected with smut or mildew.
  • Obscene; immodest; impure: as, smutty language.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Soiled with smut; smutted.
  • adjective Tainted with mildew.
  • adjective Obscene; not modest or pure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.
  • adjective Obscene, indecent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective characterized by obscenity
  • adjective soiled with dirt or soot

Etymologies

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From smut +‎ -y.

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