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smudge

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /sm?d?/
  • Rhymes: -?d?

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Chambers 1908: "Swedish smuts dirt, Danish smuds smut, German Schmutz"”)

Noun

smudge (countable and uncountable, plural smudges)

  1. A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
  2. Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)
  3. (US) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
  4. (paganism, especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
Synonyms
  • (blemish, smear): blur, smear, stain
Derived terms
  • smudge attack
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English smogen.

Verb

smudge (third-person singular simple present smudges, present participle smudging, simple past and past participle smudged)

  1. To obscure by blurring; to smear.
  2. To soil or smear with dirt.
  3. To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
  4. To stifle or smother with smoke.
  5. (paganism, intransitive) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
  6. (paganism, transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).
    • 2013, Rachel Patterson, Pagan Portals - Hoodoo: Folk Magic ?ISBN:
      This is easily done using incense to smudge yourself or taking a cleansing bath. To smudge your body use an incense mixture such as sandalwood, lavender, frankincense or myrrh.
Synonyms
  • (to obscure by blurring): blur, smear
  • (to soil or smear with dirt): smutch, soil
  • (to use smoke against insects): fumigate
Translations

Related terms

  • smudgily
  • smudginess
  • smudgy

Anagrams

  • Mudges, degums, mudges

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besmirch

English

Etymology

From be- +? smirch.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??sm??t?/
  • (US) IPA(key): /b??sm??t?/
  • Rhymes: -??(r)t?

Verb

besmirch (third-person singular simple present besmirches, present participle besmirching, simple past and past participle besmirched)

  1. (transitive, literary) To make dirty.
    Synonym: soil
  2. (transitive) To tarnish something, especially someone's reputation.
    Synonyms: debase, smear, slander

Derived terms

  • besmircher
  • besmirchment

Translations

Anagrams

  • Schembri

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