smudgern.
/ˈsmʌdʒə/ One who smudges.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > smeared condition > smearing > one who
besmearer1611
smudger1884
1884 Punch 13 Sept. 129/1 Away with all your ‘turps’ and tubes, oh, smudgers on the shore.
1887 H. Pratt Jesus, Bar Rabba, etc. 311 And the man called the name of his wife Chavah (smudger), for she was the stainer of life.
Draft additions 1993
b. A photographer, esp. a street or press photographer. Cf. smudge n.1 Additions.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographer > [noun] > types in general
portraitist1857
street photographer1859
mugfaker1880
Kodaker1890
snap-shooter1890
snapshottist1891
snapshotter1899
telephotographer1899
snapper1910
documentarian1951
smudger1961
smudge1968
pictorialist1971
1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1282/1 Smudger, an inferior street photographer.
1979 Daily Mail 8 Sept. 17/4 Smudger, secret service photographer.
1988 National Trust Mag. Summer 5/1 (advt.) Ian is..a ‘smudger’. His assignments, or shoots, take him all over the world.
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