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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

... cried, and there was a little explosion; a cork spurted out and struck the ceiling; there was smoke and the crackling of glass. He turned round and faced me, a smudge of ink on one of his cheeks, and that customary nervous unhappy smile ...

— The Secret City • Hugh Walpole

... the way we skirted the hobs of the great witches' caldron of Vesuvius. On this day the resident demons must have been stirring their brew with special enthusiasm, for the smoky smudge which always wreathes its lips had increased to a great billowy plume that lay along the naked flanges of the devil mountain for miles and miles. Now we would go puffing and panting through some small outlying environ of the city. Always the principal products of such a village ...

— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

... in the papers," he said. "If you'll allow me to say so, it's a particularly good likeness and well reproduced. Of course, in your case, they'd take particular care not to print the usual kind of smudge." ...

— The Simpkins Plot • George A. Birmingham

... those of any other part of Canada, and nothing but smoke will drive them away. Many people who live on the prairies, instead of going for their cattle at milking time, build a smudge (a fire of chips mulched with wet hay or green twigs when well started, to create smoke) near the milk house, and the cattle will come to the fire to obtain relief from the mosquitoes. The black flies are smaller, ...

— A Trip to Manitoba • Mary FitzGibbon

... fascinated him. He stared at them, fairly pouring his gaze upon them. They were beautiful, as the hands of a great lady should be kept, and it was all the more wonderful then that the right should have across the back of it a faint gray smudge, so tiny that only an eye like his, and a concentrated gaze like his, could ...

— The Tree of Appomattox • Joseph A. Altsheler

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