Word Meanings - SMUTTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Soiled with smut; smutted. 2. Tainted with mildew; as, smutty corn. 3. Obscene; not modest or pure; as, a smutty saying. The smutty joke, ridiculously lewd. Smollett. -- Smut"ti*ly, adv. -- Smut"ti*ness, n.
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- SAYING
That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb. Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled. Milton. Syn. -- Declaration; speech; adage; maxim; aphorism; apothegm; - SAYMAN
One who assays. - SOILY
Dirty; soiled. Fuller. - SOILURE
Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson. - MODESTLY
In a modest manner. - TAINTWORM
A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva. - SOIL PIPE
A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil. - MODESTY
1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy - SOILLESS
Destitute of soil or mold. - TAINTURE
Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. Shak. - TAINTLESSLY
In a taintless manner. - SOIL
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence , to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse. - SMUTTY
1. Soiled with smut; smutted. 2. Tainted with mildew; as, smutty corn. 3. Obscene; not modest or pure; as, a smutty saying. The smutty joke, ridiculously lewd. Smollett. -- Smut"ti*ly, adv. -- Smut"ti*ness, n. - SAYER
One who says; an utterer. Mr. Curran was something much better than a sayer of smart sayings. Jeffrey. - OBSCENE
1. Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures. Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew - SAYMASTER
A master of assay; one who tries or proves. "Great saymaster of state." D. Jonson. - TAINT
1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath. Chapman. 2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance - TAINTLESS
Free from taint or infection; pure. - SAYETTE
A mixed stuff, called also sagathy. See Sagathy. - SAY
Saw. Chaucer. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - VISAYAN
A member of the most numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - ASSAY POUND
A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer. - ESSAYER
One who essays. Addison. - GAINSAY
To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - MISSAY
1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander. - ESSAY
A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n. - GAINSAYER
One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - IMMODESTLY
In an immodest manner.