smudger
(ˈsmʌdʒə(r))
[f. as smudge v.1 + -er1]
One who smudges.
| 1884 Punch 13 Sept. 129/1 Away with all your ‘turps’ and tubes, oh, smudgers on the shore. 1887 H. Pratt Jesus, Bar Rabba, etc. 311 And the man called the name of his wife Chavah (smudger), for she was the stainer of life. |
______________________________
Add: b. A photographer, esp. a street or press photographer. Cf. *smudge n.1 4.
| 1961 Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1282/1 Smudger, an inferior street photographer. 1979 Daily Mail 8 Sept. 17/4 Smudger, secret service photographer. 1988 National Trust Mag. Summer 5/1 (Advt.), Ian is..a ‘smudger’. His assignments, or shoots, take him all over the world. |