smutch

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smutch

/smʌt͡ʃ/

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Perhaps an alteration of smudge, smatch, or smooch.

verb smutches · smutching · smutched

To soil, stain or smudge. Why, that’s my bawcock. What, hast smutch’d thy nose? They say it is a copy out of mine.
Similar: befoul, sully, tarnish, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, begrime

noun smutches

A stain, smudge or blot. As let a man sticke a Candle to a stone wall, though the Candle do not burne through it, yet it will leaue a shrewd smutch behind it, soyling the wall, so as it will not easily be wyped out. Thus it is with tentations, though they doe not all the mischiefe they would and might doe, they will yet be

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@misc{smutch_2026,
  title = {smutch},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/smutch},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}