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Definition of Smudgy
1. Adjective. Smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination. "Ink-smudged fingers"
Definition of Smudgy
1. Adjective. Blurred, sort of smudged. ¹
2. Adjective. Like a thick smoke (such as is emitted by a smudge pot). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Smudgy
1. smudged [adj SMUDGIER, SMUDGIEST] : SMUDGILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smudgy
Literary usage of Smudgy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... is in Craven used for a thick smoke or suffocating vapour ; to smudge, to
smoke without flame, to smear, to stifle ; smudgy, hot or close, smothery. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... soot, dirt ; smudge, a thick smoke, and as a verb, to stain or smear, to
smoulder or burn without flame, to stifle — Craven Gl.i smudgy, hot and close. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"smudgy. Hot or close, eg the fire is so large that it makes the room feel quite
hot and smudgy. The same perhaps as smothery. Line. SMUG. (1) Neat; spruce. ..."
4. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"And if in a dark room under the main deck you have hunted out a smudgy personage
... 1 Conscience and duty had, of course, nothing to do with the smudgy ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1905)
"And forget the wind with the icy wing, And the sullen sea And the elms, and the
dead brown gorse, and the steamer that throws Her smudgy trail across the ..."
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