smutch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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 sure to leaue an impression of filth and staines behinde them.
动词 v.
  1. 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.

词形变化

smutches present,singular,third-person smutching participle,present smutched participle,past smutched past smutches plural

词源

词源 1
Perhaps an alteration of smudge, smatch, or smooch.
词源 2
Perhaps an alteration of smudge, smatch, or smooch.
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