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smudge I. \ˈsməj\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English smogen transitive verb 1. a. : to make a blurry splotch or streak (as of dirt) on : begrime, smutch, soil < wiped his brow with his sooty hand, smudging it > b. : to soil as if by smudging < the bright record for child welfare has been smudged occasionally by scandals — American Guide Series: Oregon > 2. a. : to rub, daub, or wipe in a smeary manner < smudging out instead of erasing neatly his first hesitant strokes — Time > b. : to make indistinct : blur < smudge the clean line of the bridges with unnecessary parapets — Times Literary Supplement > < careful distinctions are smudged and coarsened — New Statesman & Nation > 3. a. : to smoke by means of a smudge (as in repelling mosquitoes); specifically : to protect (an orchard, garden) against frost by means of a smudge — compare orchard heating b. : to cause (a fire) to smoke heavily intransitive verb 1. a. : to make a smudge < chalks that mark easily but do not smudge > < they were smudging in the groves — Wright Morris > b. : to burn with little flame and much thick smoke 2. : to become smudged < charcoal drawings smudge easily > II. noun (-s) 1. a. (1) : a blurry spot or streak : splotch, smear < left a smudge at the erasure > < smudges made by cheap carbon paper > (2) : an immaterial stain < cleanse him of every last smudge of impropriety — Richard Hanser > b. : a smudged condition : soilage c. : an indistinct mass : blur < ahead lay a chocolate brown smudge of land, huddled in mist — Gerald Durrell > 2. a. : thick or suffocating smoke : smother b. or smudge fire : a smoldering mass placed on the windward side (as of a tent) to repel insects or in an orchard or garden to prevent frost c. : an apparatus for making a smudge fire 3. Britain : plumber's soil 4. a. : onion smudge b. : a disease of wheat, rye, and barley caused by fungi of the genera Helminthosporium and Alternaria and characterized by brownish or black discoloration of the grains 5. a. : a bid of 4 by a player in auction pitch who is not in the hole that if made wins the game forthwith b. : the winning of all four points in auction pitch; also : the reward for this which may be a doubled score or the winning of the game c. : the game of auction pitch when either of the foregoing rules is incorporated 6. : a leukocyte that is degenerating III. intransitive verb Etymology: origin unknown chiefly Scotland : to be quietly and slyly amused : laugh up one's sleeve |