smudgy

smudge (sm

v. smudged, smudg·ing, smudg·es

v.tr.

1. To make dirty, especially in one small area.

2. To smear or blur (something).

3. To fill (an orchard or another planted area) with dense smoke from a smudge pot in order to prevent damage from insects or frost.

v.intr.

1. To smear something as with dirt, soot, or ink.

2. To become smudged: Photo negatives smudge easily.

1. A blotch or smear.

2. A smoky fire used as a protection against insects or frost.

[Middle English smogen.]

smudgi·ly adv.

smudgi·ness n.

smudgy adj.

smudgy [smʌdʒɪ]

adj

1. smeared, blurred, or soiled, or likely to become so

2. made deliberately indistinct or cloudy smudgy colours

smudginess n

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Adj.

smudgy - smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"

dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"

Translations

smudgy [ˈsmʌdʒɪ] ADJ [photo] → movido, borroso; [page] → emborronado, lleno de borrones; [writing etc] → borroso

smudgy

adj (+er) → verschmiert; outline → verwischt, verschwommen

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What it was she did not know, but, fearing the return of the servant and the discovery of her deed, she stepped quickly to the camp table upon which burned the oil lamp and extinguished the smudgy, evil-smelling flame.

The Beasts of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

His nose went up in the air and quested to windward along the wind that brought the message, and he read the air with his nose as a man might read a newspaper--the salt smells of the seashore and of the dank muck of mangrove swamps at low tide, the spicy fragrances of tropic vegetation, and the faint, most faint, acrid tingle of smoke from smudgy fires.

Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context

When he had gathered a heap he built a fire, - a smouldering, smudgy fire, - and put a tin pot of water on to boil.

Love of Life And Other Stories by London, Jack View in context

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