blotch

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blotch

/blɒtʃ/ UK
/blɑt͡ʃ/ US

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Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of blot + botch.

noun blotches

An uneven patch of color or discoloration. 1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, London: J. & R. Tonson, 12th edition, Volume I, No. 16, p. 68, […] in healing those Blotches and Tumours which break out in the body […]
An irregularly shaped area. At Coleman's Hill, the upper beds consist of yellowish, soft, gritty sandstone, containing some small calcareous fragments, a few pebbles of quartz, blotches of red shale, and fragments of sandstone with impressions of stems of plants.
figuratively Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain. 1921, Warren G. Harding, Inaugural address, in Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States: from George Washington to Barack Obama, Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1989, There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differin
Any of various crop diseases that cause the plant to form spots. The fungus causing blotch lives through the winter in the cankers which it has developed on twigs, water sprouts, and fruit spurs.
A bright or dark spot on old film caused by dirt and loss of the gelatin covering the film, due to age and poor film quality. Characteristics of blotches are that they seldom appear at the same spatial location in consecutive frames, they tend to be smooth (little texture), and they usually have intensity values that are very different from the original contents they cover.
A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.
slang Blotting paper.

verb blotches · blotching · blotched

transitive To mark with blotches. 1770, Arthur Young, A Six Months Tour through the North of England, London: W. Strahan, Volume 2, p. 258, Upon the whole, the spirit and relief of the figures, with the strength of the colouring, render it a most noble picture; and it is not done in the coarse blotching stile, so common to the piece
intransitive To develop blotches, to become blotchy. 1878, Arthur Morecamp (pseudonym of Thomas Pilgrim), Live Boys; or, Charley and Nasho in Texas, Boston: Lee & Shepard, Chapter 17, p. 166, […] when a man is going to drive cattle out of the county he has to put a road-brand on them […] It is generally made of letters or figures, or something that wo

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noun An uneven patch of color or discoloration

Español	mancha
Português	mancha
Italiano	screziatura, striatura, chiazzatura, picchiettatura, macula, macola
Русский	пятно́ pjatnó

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@misc{blotch_2026,
  title = {blotch},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blotch},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}