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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

... the captain's gaze, saw something like a faint smudge growing on the horizon's line against the faintly tinted hue, and, even as they watched, it deepened to a ...

— All Aboard - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

... the railroad had been burnt over; it was a smudge prickly with charred stalks of weeds. Beyond the undeviating barbed-wire fences were clumps of golden rod. Only this thin hedge shut them off from the plains-shorn wheat-lands of autumn, a hundred acres ...

— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

... once, over and beyond them, Stern saw the blue-curling smudge of the remains of the great fire by ...

— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England

... dismounting, "is little more than a dim trail. Sorry I didn't think about it sooner, but we ought to have built a smudge fire where this road intersects the cattle trail. In case the doctor doesn't reach there by noon, I sent orders to fly a flag at the junction, and Joel to return home. But if the doctor doesn't reach there until after ...

— Wells Brothers • Andy Adams

... margravine might say to herself, "Here's Doctor Death in full diploma come to cure the wench of her infatuation." I am but quoting the coarse old woman, Richie; confusion on her and me! for I like her. It might pass in my handwriting, with a smudge for paternal grief—it might. "To Her Serene Highness the Margravine of Rippau, etc., etc., etc., in trust for the Most Exalted the Princess of Eppenwelzen-Sarkeld." I transpose or omit a title or so. "Aha!" says she, "there's verwirrung in Roy's poor head, poor fellow; the ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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