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Webster 1913 Edition


Smutch

Smutch

,
Noun.
[Prob. for
smuts
. See
Smut
,
Noun.
]
A stain; a dirty spot.
B. Jonson.

Smutch

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Smutched
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Smutching
.]
To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal.
[Written also
smooch
.]
B. Jonson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Smutch

SMUTCH

,
Verb.
T.
[from smoke.] To blacken with smoke, soot or coal.
[Note. We have a common word in New England, pronouced smooch, which I take to be smutch. It signifies to foul or blacken with something produced by combustion or other like substance.]