smut:

A pejorative word for:

1. Pornography.

2. Obscenity in speech or writing; ribaldry; obscenity. Defined by Captain Francis Grose in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: 'Bawdy. Smutty story: an indecent story .'

Quote: ) Charlie McCarthy (voice Edgar Bergen) and the soda jerk in Look Who's Laughing (1941):
-- Soda jerk : ' Gee, you're really smitten , aren't you, Charlie? '
-- Charlie : ' Yeah! The trouble with me is when I'm smitten I stay smut .'

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