SMUDGE

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

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Etymology 1

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (blemish, smear): blur, smear, stain

Etymology 2

Verb

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).

Synonyms

• (to obscure by blurring): blur, smear

• (to soil or smear with dirt): smutch, soil

• (to use smoke against insects): fumigate

Anagrams

• Mudges, degums

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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