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Blatch

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Blacking, blackening. obsolete, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To blacken; to smear with blacking; to stain or mark with soot or coal. archaic, transitive

Etymology

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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