smutch

smutchverb/smʌt͡ʃ/

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  To soil, stain or smudge.

  • Why, that’s my bawcock. What, hast smutch’d thy nose? They say it is a copy out of mine.
  • Have you seene but a bright Lilly grow, Before rude hands have touch’d it? Have you mark’d but the fall of Snow, Before the soyle hath smutch’d it?

smutchnoun/smʌt͡ʃ/

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  A stain, smudge or blot.

  • As let a man sticke a Candle to a stone wall, though the Candle do not burne through it, yet it will leaue a shrewd smutch behind it, soyling the wall, so as it will not easily be wyped out. Thus it is with tentations, though they doe not all the mischiefe they would and might doe, they will yet be sure to leaue an impression of filth and staines behinde them.
  • […] Examine well His milk-white hand. The palm is hardly clean— But here and there an ugly smutch appears. Foh! ’twas a bribe that left it.