smutched, ppl. a.
(ˈsmʌtʃt)
[f. smutch v.]
1. Smudged, smutted, stained, sullied.
| 1784 Cowper Task ii. 491 The bow Respectful of the smutch'd artificer. 1848 Keightley Notes to Horace, Sat. i. ii. 36 The smutched face of the prostitute. 1899 Macm. Mag. Nov. 35 A..woman..with a lawless tongue and a smutched reputation. |
† 2. Of corn: Affected by smut. Obs.
| 1620 Markham Farew. Husb. (1625) 108 When it is blacke at both ends, yet full and sound in the middest, and this is called smutcht corne, being disfigured in part, and not in all. |