Smutch
//smʌt͡ʃ// noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A stain, smudge or blot.
"As let a man sticke a Candle to a stone wall, though the Candle do not burne through it, yet it will leaue a shrewd smutch behind it, soyling the wall, so as it will not easily be wyped out. Thus it is with tentations, though they doe not all the mischiefe they would and might doe, they will yet be sure to leaue an impression of filth and staines behinde them."
Verb
- 1 To soil, stain or smudge.
"Why, that’s my bawcock. What, hast smutch’d thy nose? They say it is a copy out of mine."
- 2 make a smudge on; soil by smudging wordnet
Example
More examples"Why, that’s my bawcock. What, hast smutch’d thy nose? They say it is a copy out of mine."
Etymology
Perhaps an alteration of smudge, smatch, or smooch.
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