smudge.
A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
Meaning & usage
A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
There was a smudge on the paper.
Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
Where this word comes from
Derived from the verb (see below). Doublet of smutch.
To obscure by blurring; to smear.
To soil or smear with dirt.
To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
To stifle or smother with smoke.
To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).
Where this word comes from
From Middle English *smogen (attested in the gerund smogynge (“soiling, smudging”)), of obscure origin. Compare Middle English besmudded, bismuddet (“filthy”), Middle English smod (“filth, obscene behaviour”), Middle Dutch smoddich (“filthy, dirty”), German schmutzig (“dirty, filthy”).
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