Smutches vs Scutches - What's the difference?
smutches | scutches |
(smutch)
To soil, stain or smudge
A stain, smudge or blot
* 1903 , (Henry James), Chapter 12, page 180:
As verbs the difference between smutches and scutches
is that smutches is (smutch) while scutches is (scutch).As nouns the difference between smutches and scutches
is that smutches is while scutches is .smutches
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(head)smutch
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(es)- Strether felt his character receive for the instant a smutch from all the wrong things he had suspected or believed.
- (Ben Jonson)