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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

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