smutch

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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Perhaps an alteration of smudge, smatch, or smooch.

He cursed roundly when he toilsomely climbed the ladder to the freighter's deck, for the rusty sheathing smutched the knees of his trousers. — Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast, Holman Day
At last, raising their fingers all smutched with ore, they pointed them at me in scorn; and wilder and wilder, and thicker and thicker, and madder and madder, the crowd were clambering up to where I sat gazing at these wonders. — Undine, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué
Item, in another he had a little leather bottle full of old oil, wherewith, when he saw any man or woman in a rich new handsome suit, he would grease, smutch, and spoil all the best parts of it under colour and pretence of touching them, saying, This is good cloth; this is good satin; good taffeties! — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

smear, blur, smudge

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