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smudgy

UK/ˈsmʌ.d͡ʒi/ uncommon

adjective

1.

smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination

  • “oil-smeared work clothes”
  • “hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust” Henry Roth
  • “ink-smudged fingers”
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Origin

From smudge (“blemish; dense smoke; to obscure by smearing; to stifle”) + -y. (The sense "rainy" is related to dialectal use of smudge to mean drizzling rain.)

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