▪ I. ˈblotching, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of marking with blotches; discolouring.
| 1767 Specif. T. Long's Patent No. 869 A machine for the blotching, printing..colours on..calicoes, etc. 1872 Dana Corals ii. 137 A blotching of the rock with various shades of pink and purple. |
b. concr. Botch, disfigurement, smudging.
| 1865 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. IX. xx. i. 6 Read him with a Map; and divine for yourself what the real names are, out of the inhuman blotchings made of them. |
▪ II. ˈblotching, ppl. a.
That makes blotches.
| 1865 Ruskin Sesame 32 Owing to the spread of a shallow, blotching, blundering, infectious ‘information’ everywhere, and to the teaching of catechisms and phrases at schools. |