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Webster 1913 Edition

Smutch

Smutch

,
Noun.
[Prob. for
smuts
. See
Smut
,
Noun.
]
A stain; a dirty spot.
B. Jonson.

Smutch

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Smutched
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Smutching
.]
To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal.
[Written also
smooch
.]
B. Jonson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Smutch

SMUTCH

,
Verb.
T.
[from smoke.] To blacken with smoke, soot or coal.
[Note. We have a common word in New England, pronouced smooch, which I take to be smutch. It signifies to foul or blacken with something produced by combustion or other like substance.]

Definition 2024

smutch

smutch

English

Verb

smutch ‎(third-person singular simple present smutches, present participle smutching, simple past and past participle smutched)

  1. To soil, stain or smudge

Noun

smutch ‎(plural smutches)

  1. A stain, smudge or blot
    • 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors Chapter 12, page 180:
      Strether felt his character receive for the instant a smutch from all the wrong things he had suspected or believed.
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