单词 | smutch |
释义 | smutchn. 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. 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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