Also 7 smootiness. [f. SMUTTY a.]

1

  1.  A smutty condition of grain.

2

a. 1659.  Speed, Adam out of Eden, xiv. 106. It … doth … totally prevent the Smuttiness of Wheat.

3

1660.  Sharrock, Veget., 102. The change of seed from grounds of a contrary nature … is thought to prevent smootiness.

4

1733.  Tull, Horse-Hoeing Husb., xii. (Dubl.), 143. Smuttiness is when the Grains of Wheat instead of Flour are full of a black stinking Powder.

5

1764.  Museum Rust., II. lxviii. 223. Good wheat is so often spoiled by smuttiness and sprouting.

6

  2.  Indecency, obscenity of language.

7

1687.  Miége, Gt. Fr. Dict., II. Smuttiness, impureté, impudicité.

8

1698.  Jer. Collier, Immor. Stage, i. (1730), 4. Smuttiness is a Fault in Behaviour as well as in Religion.

9

1721.  Amherst, Terræ Filius, No. 26. 135. They begin with satire and funeral lamentation; but end with love, smuttiness, and a song.

10

  3.  Sootiness, griminess.

11

1881.  Globe, 30 June, 2/1. The … kettle cannot … taunt the veriest heathen pot with smuttiness.

12