ppl. a. [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. H. Child, in Macm. Mag., Nov., 35/1. 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.
