a. Also 6 smutchie. [f. SMUTCH sb.] 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 wrist for a bracelet.
1867. Lowell, Lett. (1894), I. iv. 423. I have no fear that these smutchy backdoors of hell shall prevail against her.
1883. Nation (N.Y.), 20 Dec., 517/1. The illustrations … have that heavy and smutchy effect in the closely shaded parts which is a constant defect in mechanical engraving.
