† bletchyadj.
Obsolete.
Smutted with ‘bletch’; inky, sooty, dirty.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > dirty or soiled with soot or coal-dust
sootya1250
culmya1300
bletchy1520
sootish1582
coaly1589
collowed1606
fuliginous1606
colly1619
coomy1823
sooted1892
the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > [adjective] > blackened
forswartedc1305
bletchy1520
blackeneda1522
well-blacked1592
collied1600
blackeda1643
1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. F.iiijv Thou blurrest and blottes them, as thou were a bletchy sowter [L. atramentosi sarctoris].
1633 J. Clarke tr. Two-fold Praxis iii. 43 in Dux Grammaticus Thou blurrest and blottest them [sc.my books], as thou wert a bletchy sower.
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