Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
SMUDGE
smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur
(noun) a blemish made by dirt; āhe had a smudge on his cheekā
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
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
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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