smutty (smut i)

[ I pray leave the smutty Air of London, and come hither Howell, Letters, I. iv. 5. to breathe sweeter. The "Still," or Distillery, was a smutty , clouted, suspicious-looking building, down in a hollow by Mill Brook. S. Judd , Margaret, i. 15. 2. Affected with smut or mildew. Smutty corn will sell dearer at one time than the clean at another. Locke . 3. Obscene; immodest; impure: as, smutty language. Let the grave sneer, sarcastic speak thee shrewd, The smutty joke ridiculously lewd. Smollett , Advice. Smutty coot, the black scoter, Edemia american a . See cut under Edemia . [Salem, Ma achusetts.]