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单词 smutch
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smutchn.

/smʌtʃ/
Forms: Also 1500s smutche, 1600s smuch.
Etymology: Of uncertain origin; related in some way to smudge , which is recorded earlier as a verb (smudge v.1) though much later as a noun (smudge n.1). More recent forms are smooch n.1 and smouch n.4
1.
a. A black or dirty mark; a stain; a smudge.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > dirty mark
smitOE
soil1501
smutch1530
sullya1616
smitch1638
smut1664
smircha1688
moil1818
high-water mark1847
smouch1873
tide-mark1907
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 272/1 Smutche on ones face, barboyllement.
1637 C. Dow Answer to H. Burton 125 Though it bee not needfull to wipe off every smutch.
a1648 R. Crashaw Poems (1904) 360 Those durty smutches, wch their faire fronts wore.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 608 The palm is hardly clean—But here and there an ugly smutch appears.
1844 J. R. Lowell Hunger & Cold v He recks not a bloody smutch On his gold.
1879 G. MacDonald Paul Faber II. xiii. 256 He in whose eyes even a smutch on her face would have lowered a woman.
b. figurative. A moral stain.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun] > a stain or slur
spota1225
umberc1380
blotc1386
maculate1490
touch1508
blemish1526
blur1548
attaint1592
stain1594
attainder1597
tachec1610
sullya1616
tainta1616
smutch1648
slur1662
woad1663
a blot on an escutcheon1697
blotch1860
smear1943
1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra (1879) 15 Our Souls, which before did lye Defil'd through th' smutch of Sin.
1688 J. Bunyan Solomon's Temple xxxiii Hence the word of God is compared to a glass,..by which we see..our smutches.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 8 Nov. 5/1 The work of cleansing the city from the smutch of Croker and his fellow-ruffians.
c. A slight mark or indication; semblance; also, a slight or light touch.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a slight touch or trace
specec1330
taste1390
lisounc1400
savourc1400
smatcha1500
smell?a1505
spice1531
smack1539
shadow1586
surmise1586
relish1590
tang1593
touch1597
stain1609
tincture1612
dasha1616
soula1616
twanga1640
whiff1644
haut-goût1650
casta1661
stricturea1672
tinge1736
tinct1752
vestige1756
smattering1764
soupçon1766
smutch1776
shade1791
suspicion1809
lineament1811
trait1815
tint1817
trace1827
skiff1839
spicing1844
smudgea1871
ghost1887
1776 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 98 Without a shadow, a relish, a smutch, a tinge,..of anger.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh v. 199 I never envied Graham his breadth of style, Which gives you, with a random smutch or two,..Such delicate perspectives of full life.
2. Soot, smut, grime, dirt.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > grime, soot, or coal dirt
sootc725
smitchc1330
culmc1440
coom1587
coal slack1612
grime1612
crock1657
fuliginosity1662
collow1675
smut1693
colly1708
smutch1791
brook1825
stokers1899
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xviii. 34 Collied with chimney smutch!
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xviii. 513 His arms and brawny neck Purified, and his shaggy breast from smutch.
1890 R. Bridges Shorter Poems iii. 13 The soil, the smutch the toil and ache and wear.
3. attributive, as smutch box, smutch pan.
ΚΠ
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 145/1 Stainshall, of some called a Smuch Box; it is a Tin with a bottom and three sides, in which Oil Pencils are put with their points in Oil to keep them from drying.
c1896 Rowney's Price List 20 Oil Slant and Smutch Pan.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

smutchv.

/smʌtʃ/
Etymology: See smutch n. and compare smooch v.1
a. transitive. To blacken, make dirty, smut, smudge. Also in figurative context.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)]
sulec897
smitOE
soil1297
besoila1300
bysulpc1400
smudgec1430
dauba1450
smirch1495
smotter1513
suddle1513
smada1525
coinquinatea1529
puddle1535
moil1575
smut1587
sud1593
sully1601
coninquinate1609
smirch1615
smutcha1616
beslurry1627
besullya1645
smoot1683
besmircha1700
be-smutch1832
guggle1866
dirten1906
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 123 Why that's my Bawcock: what? has't smutch'd thy Nose? View more context for this quotation
1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 275 It would not do well to have the Collier and Fuller live together, what one cleanseth the other will crock and smutch.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 20 The brightest ivory, if smutched with the fire, contracteth a filthy blackness.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xiii. 536 A cloak And kirtle..foul And smutch'd with smoke.
1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 57 As though afraid to smutch Even with mealy gold the waters clear.
1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve xiv. 48 Under the foot they could not smutch, Lay all the fleshly and the bestial.
1876 J. G. Holland Story of Sevenoaks (new ed.) xv. 210 Puppies that might..fawn before her, but might not smutch her robes with their dirty feet.
b. figurative. To stain, sully, besmirch, etc., morally or otherwise.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > stain or sully [verb (transitive)]
filea1325
foulc1330
tache1390
dark?c1400
distain1406
smita1413
blemish1414
black?c1425
defoul1470
maculate?a1475
macule1484
tan1530
staina1535
spota1542
smear1549
blot1566
besmear1579
defile1581
attaint1590
soila1596
slubber1599
tack1601
woad1603
besmirch1604
blur1604
to breathe upon ——1608
be-smut1610
clouda1616
sullya1616
taint1623
smutch1640
blackena1649
to cast, put, throw (etc.) a slur on or upon (a person or thing)1654
beslur1675
tarnish1695
blackwash1762
carbonify1792
smirch1820
tattoo1884
dirten1987
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > pollute or defile
afileeOE
awemOE
filec1175
wemc1175
soila1250
foulc1330
defoula1340
bleckc1380
blemishc1380
pollutea1382
tache1390
sulpa1400
vilec1400
spota1413
stain1446
defilec1450
violate1490
tan1530
smear1549
beray1576
moil1596
discolour1598
smut1601
bespurtle1604
sullya1616
commaculatec1616
decolour?c1622
collutulate1623
deturpate1623
berust1631
smutch1640
discolorate1651
smoot1683
tarnish1695
tar1817
dirten1987
1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour To Rdr. Some, who must quarrell..with my Booke..and smutch it with a scorne of my Profession.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 134 The Fumes..from his Spleen..have..smutched and sullied his Brain.
1858 Morris Old Love 158 This love is not so hard to smutch.
1865 J. Skelton Campaigner at Home ix. 264 The passion is always pure. It is never smutched by sensuality.

Derivatives

ˈsmutching n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > soiling
soilure1297
sowlingc1440
smirching1495
soiling1580
soilth1581
slurrying1600
smutching1611
aspersion1614
sullya1616
sullying1629
dabbling1677
soilage1926
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > grimy > making grimy
smutching1871
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Souillement, a..slurrying, durtying, smutching.
1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος i. 3 He is but your scullion to make your integrity shine the brighter by all these reproachfull smutchings.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. iii. 226 The black blood's horrible and smutching stains.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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