smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur
(noun) a blemish made by dirt; “he had a smudge on his cheek”
smudge
(noun) a smoky fire to drive away insects
smear, blur, smudge, smutch
(verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging
Source: WordNet® 3.1
smudge (countable and uncountable, plural smudges)
A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
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.
(neopaganism, especially, in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
• (blemish, smear): blur, smear, stain
smudge (third-person singular simple present smudges, present participle smudging, simple past and past participle smudged)
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.
(paganism, intransitive) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
(paganism, transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).
• (to obscure by blurring): blur, smear
• (to soil or smear with dirt): smutch, soil
• (to use smoke against insects): fumigate
• Mudges, degums
Source: Wiktionary
Smudge, n. Etym: [Cf. Dan. smuds smut, E. smutch, or smoke.]
1. A suffocating smoke. Grose.
2. A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. [U. S.] Bartlett.
3. That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.
Smudge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smudged; p. pr. & vb. n. Smudging.]
1. To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.
2. To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 March 2025
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
