Blatch
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Blacking, blackening. obsolete, uncountable
Verb
- 1 To blacken; to smear with blacking; to stain or mark with soot or coal. archaic, transitive
Synonyms
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Etymology 1
From Middle English blacche (“black pigment or dye; black colour; black individual”), from Old English blæċċe (“black matter”).
Etymology 2
From Middle English blacchen, from the noun above.
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