smutch (smuch)

t. [Also dial.smouch, smooch (also smudge, q.v.); = revile, insult, MHG. smotzen, schmutzen, soil; cf. Sw. smuts = Dan. smuds = MHG. smuz, G. schmutz, dirt, filth; connected with smit1, smite, smut.] To blacken with smoke, soot, or the like; smudge. What, hast smutch'd thy nose? Shak., W. T., i. 2. 121. Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutch'd it? B. Jonson, Devil is an A , ii. 2.