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Blotch

//blɒtʃ// noun, verb, slang

Noun

1
An uneven patch of color or discoloration.
"1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, London: J. & R. Tonson, 12th edition, Volume I, No. 16, p. 68, […] in healing those Blotches and Tumours which break out in the body […]"
2
an irregularly shaped spot wordnet
3
An irregularly shaped area.
"At Coleman's Hill, the upper beds consist of yellowish, soft, gritty sandstone, containing some small calcareous fragments, a few pebbles of quartz, blotches of red shale, and fragments of sandstone with impressions of stems of plants."
4
Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain. figuratively
"1921, Warren G. Harding, Inaugural address, in Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States: from George Washington to Barack Obama, Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1989, There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty."
5
Any of various crop diseases that cause the plant to form spots.
"The fungus causing blotch lives through the winter in the cankers which it has developed on twigs, water sprouts, and fruit spurs."

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6
A bright or dark spot on old film caused by dirt and loss of the gelatin covering the film, due to age and poor film quality.
"Characteristics of blotches are that they seldom appear at the same spatial location in consecutive frames, they tend to be smooth (little texture), and they usually have intensity values that are very different from the original contents they cover."
7
A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.
8
Blotting paper. slang

Verb

1
To mark with blotches. transitive
"1770, Arthur Young, A Six Months Tour through the North of England, London: W. Strahan, Volume 2, p. 258, Upon the whole, the spirit and relief of the figures, with the strength of the colouring, render it a most noble picture; and it is not done in the coarse blotching stile, so common to the pieces which pass under the name of Bassan."
2
mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained wordnet
3
To develop blotches, to become blotchy. intransitive
"1878, Arthur Morecamp (pseudonym of Thomas Pilgrim), Live Boys; or, Charley and Nasho in Texas, Boston: Lee & Shepard, Chapter 17, p. 166, […] when a man is going to drive cattle out of the county he has to put a road-brand on them […] It is generally made of letters or figures, or something that won’t cross lines, because where they cross they are apt to blotch and then it’s hard to tell what the brand is and who the animal belongs to."

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of blot + botch.

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of blot + botch.

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