There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
SMIRCH
blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain
(noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; “he made a huge blot on his copybook”
smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur
(noun) a blemish made by dirt; “he had a smudge on his cheek”
defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
(verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; “The journalists have defamed me!”; “The article in the paper sullied my reputation”
smirch, besmirch
(verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
smirch (countable and uncountable, plural smirches)
Dirt, or a stain.
(figurative) A stain on somebody's reputation.
Verb
smirch (third-person singular simple present smirches, present participle smirching, simple past and past participle smirched)
(transitive) To dirty; to make dirty.
Synonyms: besmirch, soil
(transitive, figurative) To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.
Synonym: besmirch
Etymology 2
Meld of smear and chirp
Noun
smirch (plural smirches)
A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)
Anagrams
• chirms, chrism
Source: Wiktionary
Smirch, v. t. Etym: [From the root of smear.]
Definition: To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully. I'll . . . with a kind of umber smirch my face. Shak.
Smirch, n.
Definition: A smutch; a dirty stain.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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