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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SMUTCH, v.t. [from smoke.] To blacken with smoke, soot or coal.
[Note. We have a common word in New England, pronouced smooch, which I take to be smutch. It signifies to foul or blacken with something produced by combustion or other like substance.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make a smudge on; soil by smudging [syn: smear, blur, smudge, smutch]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: akin to Middle English smogen to smudge Date: 1530 a dark stain ; smudge • smutch transitive verb • smutchy adjective

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Smutch Smutch, n. [Prob. for smuts. See Smut, n.] A stain; a dirty spot. --B. Jonson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Smutch Smutch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smutched; p. pr. & vb. n. Smutching.] To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal. [Written also smooch.] --B. Jonson.