Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To soil or stain.
- n. A stain or spot of dirt.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To blacken with smoke, soot, or the like; smudge.
- n. A black spot; a black stain; a smudge.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A stain; a dirty spot.
- v. To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make a smudge on; soil by smudging
Etymologies
- Perhaps alteration of smudge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Strether felt HIS character receive for the instant a smutch from all the wrong things he had suspected or believed.”
“Item, in another he had a little leather bottle full of old oil, wherewith, when he saw any man or woman in a rich new handsome suit, he would grease, smutch, and spoil all the best parts of it under colour and pretence of touching them, saying, This is good cloth; this is good satin; good taffeties!”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“Against this grisly, dark smutch the whites of the man's eyes stood out like sculpted marbles.”
Dirge
“When I find a slut asleep, I smutch her face if it be clean; but if it be dirty, I wash it in the next piss pot that I can find: the balls I use to wash such sluts withal is a sow's pancake or a pilgrim's salve.”
“See what you're doing, Steve!" he cried, pointing at the oily smutch.”
“Through the smoke and smutch which stained the canvas was seen a gray-haired, saintly woman's head.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
“I detected a smutch of yellowish paint upon it, nothing more.”
“They were alert, well-muscled; their faces were streaked with paleness and a black smutch like dancers made up for a masquerade.”
Tramping on Life
“She was minus the dust-cap and the ruffled apron, but she had a dab of flour on the left cheek, and a smutch of crock on her forehead.”
“Then after attempting to sanctify the baby -- a ceremony wholly imaginary and described with a smutch of revolting coarseness -- the sisters send the baby packing back to the Protestant Detectoral Association.”
Lists
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 more...
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Zamboni Palin
My imaginary lexicon for future megastar and visionary Zamboni Palin.
strewth, curple, speshly, ugly tree, whupping, nar'n, swain, sneezeweed, sciencey, snarleyyow, jackpudding, squanch and 304 more...
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Words of Note
autoscopic, Bilocation, enmesh, Inusitate, irenic, ipseity, slake, lee, waif, betide, intercessor, viand and 84 more...
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joelhardin's Words
kitsch, desertification, serendipitous, myriad, rakish, ethereal, legerdemain, extempore, rubric, tubercular, superfluous, miasma and 21 more...
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kmohnkern's Words
synecdoche, metonymy, crotch, sniffle, schism, bucolic, neologism, embiggen, coniferous, schadenfreude, akimbo, fitful and 27 more...
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Laurenalexandra's Words
adumbration, ullage, ecotone, liminal, onomasticon, polysemy, palingenesia, stitchmeal, knapweed, onyx, kettle, azure and 22 more...
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