Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Blotted, stained, or discolored; grimed; dirty; smutched.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
smouch .
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Examples
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Its code of morals is unobjectionable -- it is "smouched" * from the New Testament and no credit given.
Roughing It 1871
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-- it is "smouched" [Milton] from the New Testament and no credit given.
Roughing It, Part 2. Mark Twain 1872
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-- it is "smouched" [Milton] from the New Testament and no credit given.
Roughing It Mark Twain 1872
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It was Webster who persuaded Mark Twain to omit the “raft episode” that he had earlier smouched for Life on the Mississippi, to lighten the bulk of Huck Finn.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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It was Webster who persuaded Mark Twain to omit the “raft episode” that he had earlier smouched for Life on the Mississippi, to lighten the bulk of Huck Finn.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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So I smouched one, and they come out nine, same as the other time.
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We smouched the grindstone, and set out to roll her home, but it was a most nation tough job.
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P.M. six days in the week, and once or twice I smouched a Sunday when the boss wasn't looking.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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P.M. six days in the week, and once or twice I smouched a Sunday when the boss wasn't looking.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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"Wasn't you expecting we would be the first to tell the family who it is that's been killed yonder in the sycamores, and all about them rapscallions that done it, and about the di'monds they've smouched off of the corpse, and paint it up fine, and have the glory of being the ones that knows a lot more about it than anybody else?"
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