smut vs bawdry

smut and bawdry both are nouns.

smut is a verb but bawdry is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
smut	Yes	No	Yes	No
bawdry	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bawdry is a hyponym of smut; that is, bawdry is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than smut:

smut: an offensive or indecent word or phrase
bawdry: lewd or obscene talk or writing

Other hyponyms of smut include bawdy, scatology.

smut (noun)	bawdry (noun)
creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire	lewd or obscene talk or writing
an offensive or indecent word or phrase
any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

smut (verb)	bawdry (verb)
affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
become affected with smut
make obscene

Difference between smut and bawdry

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