Smudger vs Smudge - What's the difference?
smudger | smudge |
One who, or that which, smudges.
* 1964 , William Wasserstrom, Civil Liberties and the Arts: Selections from Twice a Year, 1938-48 (page 230)
* 2002 , David Bergsland, Introduction to Digital Publishing (page 147)
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 nouns the difference between smudger and smudge
is that smudger is one who, or that which, smudges while smudge is a blemish; a smear.As a verb smudge is
to obscure by blurring; to smear.smudger
English
Noun
(en noun)- Servile smudgers of history, prattling about an Emil Ludwig and a Thomas Mann season — meaning the Weimar period — as if it had produced me and as if I had used the Republic for a background!
- The tools can get rather exotic - spinners, rubber stamps, airbrush, smudgers , and so on.
smudge
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- There was a smudge on the paper.
- (Grose)
- (Bartlett)