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▪ I. † plotch, n. Obs.
Also 6 ploche.
[Origin uncertain; possibly related to blotch n., which is later. Cf. also plot n. 1.]
A botch or blotch; in quots. applied to the spots of leprosy.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke v. 55 Abhorred & lothed of all men for the foule ploches of the leprie. 1612tr. Benvenuto's Passenger i. i. 69 A person..who stood at the Temple gate demanding of almes, with certaine counterfait plotches of a leaper [Ital. con macchie artificiate di lepra].
▪ II. plotch, v. rare—1.|plɒtʃ|
[Perh. f. plotch n., or imit.]
trans. To splash on to, to mark.
1922Joyce Ulysses 745 All the mud plotching my boots. |