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Smudge vs Smouch - What's the difference?

smudge | smouch |

In us|lang=en terms the difference between smudge and smouch

is that smudge is (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 while smouch is (us) to kiss loudly or closely.

As nouns the difference between smudge and smouch

is that smudge is a blemish; a smear while smouch is a smutch; a stain or smudge.

As verbs the difference between smudge and smouch

is that smudge is to obscure by blurring; to smear while smouch is to stain or smudge, to smutch.

smudge

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A blemish; a smear.
    • There was a smudge on the paper.
  • Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
    • (Grose)
  • (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.
    • (Bartlett)
    Synonyms
    * blur, smear, stain

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) smogen.

    Verb

    (smudg)
  • 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.
    • Synonyms
    * (to obscure by blurring) blur, smear * (to soil or smear with dirt) smutch, soil * (to use smoke against insects) fumigate

    Related terms

    * smudgily * smudginess * smudgy

    Anagrams

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    smouch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A smutch; a stain or smudge.
  • * 1866 , Henry Ward Beecher, 595 Pulpit Pungencies , page 263,
    • Suppose an artist, after having completed such a picture, in a moment of intoxication, goes into his studio, takes his brush, dips it into black paint, and applies it thereto. Only one smouch and the work of months is destroyed!
  • * 1896 , Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, Harper's new monthly magazine , Volume 93, page 618,
    • and on her breast a baby, wet as she, smiling and cooing, but with a great crimson smouch on its tiny shoulder.
  • (US) A loud kiss, a smooch.

    • Verb

  • To stain or smudge, to smutch.
  • (US) To kiss loudly or closely.
  • To take dishonestly or unfairly, to steal from or cheat out of.
  • * 1884 , , Chapter XXXV,
    • So I'll mosey along now, and smouch a couple of case-knives."
    "Smouch three," he says; "we want one to make a saw out of."