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Shutted vs Smutted - What's the difference?

shutted | smutted |

As verbs the difference between shutted and smutted

is that shutted is (nonstandard) (shut) while smutted is (smut).

shutted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nonstandard) (shut)

    • shut

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) shutten, shetten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To close, to stop from being open.
    • Please shut the door.
    The light was so bright I had to shut my eyes.
  • To close, to stop being open.
    • If you wait too long, the automatic door will shut .
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, chiefly, British) To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
    • The pharmacy is shut on Sunday.
  • To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
  • * Dryden
    • shut from every shore
    Usage notes
    Except when part of one of the derived terms listed below, almost every use of shut'' can be replaced by ''close''. The reverse is not true -- there are many uses of ''close'' that cannot be replaced by ''shut .
    Derived terms
    (phrasal verbs derived from shut) * shut away * shut down * shut in * shut off * shut out * shut up (single words and compounds derived from shut) * shutdown, shut-down * shut-eye * shut-in * shutout, shut-out * shutter (idioms derived from shut) * open and shut * shut one's eyes to * shut the door on * shut up shop * shut your face * shut your mouth * shut your trap

    Adjective

    (-)
  • closed

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or time of shutting; close.
    • the shut of a door
  • * Milton
    • Just then returned at shut of evening flowers.
  • A door or cover; a shutter.
    • (Sir Isaac Newton)
  • The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.

    • Etymology 2

    Variation of (chute) or (shute) (archaic, related to (shoot)) from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A narrow alley]] or [[passageway, passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
    • Synonyms
    * (alleyway) alley, gennel (Northern Ireland), ginnel (Yorkshire and Lancashire), gitty (East Midlands), jitty (Midlands), passage, snicket (Northern England), wynd (Scotland)

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    smutted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (smut)

    • smut

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Soot.
  • (uncountable) Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
  • (uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
  • * Addison
    • He does not stand upon decency but will talk smut , though a priest and his mother be in the room.
  • (derogatory) A promiscuous woman.
  • Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
  • (mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.

    • Synonyms

    * (soot) filth * (sexually vulgar or pornographic material) filth * (promiscuous woman) slut

    Derived terms

    * corn smut * smutty

    Verb

  • To stain (or be stained) with soot etc.
  • To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.
    • (Mortimer)
  • To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • To clear of the smut fungus.
    • to smut grain for the mill

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