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▪ I. smutch, n. (smʌtʃ) Also 6 smutche, 7 smuch. [Of uncertain origin; related in some way to smudge, which is recorded earlier as a vb. though much later as a n. More recent forms are smooch n.1 and smouch n.4] 1. A black or dirty mark; a stain; a smudge.1530 Palsgr. 272/1 Smutche on ones face, bar...
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Matthew Holness
In 2016, he wrote and directed Smutch, a Halloween Comedy Short shown on Sky Arts, in which he played an embittered author haunted by a ghost writer.
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Words That Rhyme With "Much" - Rhyme Desk
Words That Rhyme With "Much" : 1 syllable: Bruch, clutch, crutch, cutch, dutch, grutch, huch, hutch, Kutch, mutch, scutch, smutch, such, touch
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be-smutch
be-smutch, v. (bɪˈsmʌtʃ) [f. be- 1 + smutch.] trans. To besmirch.1832 Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. V. 258 Her siren finery has got all besmutched. 1856 R. Vaughan Mystics vi. i. (ed. 2) I. 151 Ruffling and besmutching all his gay feathers.
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smutched
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 sm...
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smutchless
ˈsmutchless, a. [f. smutch n.] Unsmirched.1853 W. Cadenhead Bon-Accord 177 (E.D.D.), Gar me stain my smutchless name, Wi' lawless pleasures.
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smutchy
smutchy, a. (ˈsmʌtʃɪ) Also 6 smutchie. [f. smutch n.] Smudgy, smeary, dirty.1579 Twyne Phis. agst. Fortune i. xlii. 60 The woorkemanshyp of a smutchie and filthie woorkeman. 1628 Shirley Witty Fair One iv. iv, You are in hope to filch a point from my breeches, Which..you will wear About your smutchy...
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smooch
▪ I. smooch, n.1 U.S. (smuːtʃ) [Cf. smouch n.4 and smutch n.] A smutch or smear.1825 J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 46 Cowhide shoes—newly greased..which left a ‘smooch’ upon whatever they came near. 1842 Motley Lett. (1889) I. 136 The body of the Child is a mere smooch of lamp-black. 1869 Mrs. Whitney W...
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snuch
† snuch Obs.—1 [Related to snudge in the same way as slutch, smutch, to sludge, smudge.] = snudge n.1579–80 North Plutarch (1595) 135 But in the ende..this bribing wretch was forced for to hold a typling booth, most like a clowne or snuch.
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smouch
▪ I. smouch, n.1 Now dial. (smaʊtʃ) Also 8 dial. smeawtch, 9 smoutch. [Cf. G. schmutz (MHG. smuz) in the same sense.] A kiss, a buss.1578 Whetstone Promos & Cass. i. iv. vii, Come smack me, I long for a smouch. 1634 Heywood & Brome Lanc. Witches ii. H.'s Wks. 1874 IV. 194 I'le have one smouch at thy...
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smudge
▪ I. smudge, n.1 (smʌdʒ) [Related to smudge v.1 Cf. the earlier smutch n., to which this has the same correspondence as sludge to slutch.] 1. a. A dirty mark or stain, esp. such as is caused by a smear or by trying to rub out a previous mark.1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 596 A long sooty smudge...
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panache
panache (pəˈnɑːʃ, -æ-) Also 6 pannach, 6–7 pinnach, 7 penache, -ashe, 7–8 pannache, 7–9 pennache, 8 panashe, (-ack). [a. F. panache, ad. It. pennacchio, deriv. of penna feather.] 1. a. A tuft or plume of feathers, esp. when used as a head-dress or an ornament for a helmet; † hence extended to orname...
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collow
▪ I. collow, v. Obs. exc. dial. (ˈkɒləʊ, -ə) Also 5 colwe(n, 5–6 colowe, (9 dial. collar). [Late ME. colwen perh.:—OE. *colᵹian, f. *coliᵹ coaly, f. col coal (cf. hálᵹian, ME. halwen to hallow, f. háliᵹ holy): see also colly v. and a. With mod. dial. collar, cf. foller = follow.] trans. To make blac...
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cadge
▪ I. cadge, n.1 (kædʒ) [App. a variant of cage perh. confused with cadge v. to carry about; but it does not appear what is the source of the earliest quotation, which the later merely follow.] 1. Falconry. (See quots.)1615 Latham Falconry (1633) Wds. of Art expl., Cadge, is taken for that on which F...
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colly
▪ I. colly, n.1 Obs. exc. dial. (ˈkɒlɪ) [prob. f. colly a., or a dial. form of collow n., assimilated to the adj.] 1. Soot; smut.1708–15 Kersey, Colly, the Black that sticks on the outside of a Pot, or Kettle. Colly, to dawb with Colly, to smut. 1825 Britton Beauties Wiltsh. Gloss., Colley, the soot...
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