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noun

Smudge n.

A suffocating smoke.

A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. (U. S.)

That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.

verb

Smudge v. t. (past & past part. smudged; pres. part. smudging)

To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.

To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.

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Etymology of 'Smudge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Smudge" Quotes from Famous Books

... while her breath seemed to choke her, Adelle saw the man in the glare of the flame pull himself up, inch by inch, until his head was level with the glass, butt his head against the heavy pane, and with a final heave disappear within while a black smudge of smoke poured from the vent ...

— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

... to port and slipped astern. Paris closed up, telescoped its panorama, became a mere blur, a smoky smudge. But it was long before the distance eclipsed that admonitory finger of ...

— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

... not at his ease with Arctura; he was afraid of her. When a man is conscious of wrong, knows in his history what would draw a hideous smudge over the portrait he would present to the eyes of her he would please, he may well be afraid of her. He makes liberal allowance for himself, but is not sure she will! And before Forgue lay a social gulf which he could pass only on the narrow plank of her favour! The more he was with ...

— Donal Grant • George MacDonald

... sitting on a fallen tree in the cloud of smoke from a smudge fire Bell had built for her. She was wearing the oily flying suit he had found in the shed with the plane, and had torn strips from her discarded dress to make a fishing line. The hook was made out ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various

... One's first impression is, that over this canvas the artist has dashed a bucket of soap-suds, and over that a pot of red and yellow ochre. Well, after all, what was a snowstorm but a bucket of soap-suds on a big scale! Call it suds, a mad smudge, anything you like, but it was a miracle of art all the same if it produced the effect aimed at, and gave one some idea of that darkness and whiteness, and rush and mad mingling of elements, and ...

— Fan • Henry Harford

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