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Definition of Smutched
1. smutch [v] - See also: smutch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smutched
Literary usage of Smutched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"Cheese or milk when just beginning to turn sour is said to be smutched, or to
have a smatch; a dirty vessel put into milk or cream is supposed to smatch it; ..."
2. A Rudimentary Treatise on Warming and Ventilation: Being a Concise by Charles Tomlinson (1869)
"... which destroyed the lungs of those who breathed it, and smutched the finishings
of the walls, furniture, and everything in the apartment, ..."
3. A Rudimentary Treatise on Warming and Ventilation: Being a Concise by Charles Tomlinson (1886)
"... which destroyed the lungs of those who breathed it, and smutched the finishings
of the walls, furniture, and everything in the apartment, ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1898)
"A bloody whelk Rose where the golden sceptre fell. He took His seat, dismayed,
and still in pain wiped off The tears from his smutched face. ..."
5. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1898)
"A bloody whelk Rose where the golden sceptre fell. He took His seat, dismayed,
and still in pain wiped off The tears from his smutched face. ..."
6. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1870)
"The tears from his smutched face. The multitude Around him, though in anxious
mood, were moved To smiles, and one addressed his neighbor thus: — "Strange ..."
7. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"It was Christmas afternoon ; the snow lay upon the ground ; the only person
besides himself there was the oily and smutched engineer. ..."
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