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smirch | unsmirched |

As a noun smirch

is dirt.

As a verb smirch

is to.

As an adjective unsmirched is

not having been smirched; unbesmirched.

smirch

English

Etymology 1

Attested since the 15th Century .

Noun

  • Dirt
  • * 1998 , Michael Foss, People of the First Crusade , page 6, ISBN 1559704551.
  • *:Too often, in the years between 800 and 1050, the everyday sun declined through the smirch of flame and smoke of a monastery or town robbed and burnt.
  • (of a reputation) Stain
  • * 2008 , W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk , page 33, ISBN 1604502061.
  • *:there were some business transactions which savored of dangerous speculation, if not dishonesty; and around it all lay the smirch of the Freedmen's Bank.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To .
  • * 1600 , Scene III
    • CELIA. I'll put myself in poor and mean attire,
    And with a kind of umber smirch my face;
    The like do you; so shall we pass along,
    And never stir assailants.
    Synonyms
    * besmirch * soil
    Derived terms
    * besmirch

    References

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    Etymology 2

    Meld of smear and chirp
  • A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance om its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)
  • *2003 , B. S. Sathyaprakash, BF Schutz, "Templates for stellar mass black holes falling into supermassive black holes", Classical and Quantum Gravity , volume 20, no. 10
  • *:The strain h''(''t'') produced by a smirch in LISA is given by ''h''(''t'') = −-''A''(''t'')cos[(''t'') + ?(''t )]
  • *2005 , John M. T. Thompson, Advances in Astronomy: From the Big Bang to the Solar System , page 133, ISBN 1860945775.
  • *:By observing a smirch , LISA offers a unique opportunity to directly map the spacetime geometry around the central object and test whether or not this structure is in accordance with the expectations of general realtivity.

    • Anagrams

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    unsmirched

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not having been smirched; unbesmirched.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1889, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=You are English boys, you will remain English boys, and you will keep that name unsmirched . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=Carter Goodloe, title=Calvert of Strathore, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Gossip and rumor left no frailty undiscovered, no reputation unsmirched . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1918, author=Magnay, William, title=The Hunt Ball Mystery, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Dick is a good fellow and very fond of me, but, although you might not think it, he is almost absurdly proud of the family name and its unsmirched record. }}