Fleck vs Smudge - What's the difference?
fleck | smudge |
A flake
A lock, as of wool.
A small spot or streak; a speckle.
* Longfellow
* Tennyson
To mark with small spots
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
A blemish; a smear.
Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
(US) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
To obscure by blurring; to smear.
To soil or smear with dirt.
To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
To stifle or smother with smoke.
(North American Indigenous) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual.
As an adjective fleck
is fledged, full-fledged.As a noun smudge is
a blemish; a smear.As a verb smudge is
to obscure by blurring; to smear.fleck
English
Noun
(en noun)- A sunny fleck .
- Life is dashed with flecks of sin.
Verb
(en verb)smudge
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- There was a smudge on the paper.
- (Grose)
- (Bartlett)