Stain vs Smouch - What's the difference?

stain | smouch |

As nouns the difference between stain and smouch

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

As a verb smouch is

to stain or smudge, to smutch.

stain

English

(wikipedia stain)

Noun

(en noun)

A discoloured spot or area.

A blemish on one's character or reputation.

A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.

A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.

Derived terms

* (l) * Giemsa stain * Leishman stain * Romanowsky stain * Wright-Giemse stain * Wright's stain

Verb

(en verb)

To discolour something

to stain the hand with dye

armour stained with blood

To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation

* Milton

Of honour void, / Of innocence, of faith, of purity, / Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained .

To coat a surface with a stain

to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.

the stained glass used for church windows

To treat a microscope specimen with a dye

To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

She stains the ripest virgins of her age.

* Spenser

that did all other beasts in beauty stain

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."