smutch/smʌt͡ʃ/EtymologyPerhaps an alteration of smudge, smatch, or smooch.smutch means A stain, smudge or blot. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.nounA stain, smudge or blot.“As let a man sticke a Candle to a stone wall, though the Candle do not burne through it, yet it will leaue a shrewd smutch behind it, soyling the wall, so as it will not easily be wyped out. Thus it is with tentations, though they doe not all the mischiefe they would and might doe, they will yet be sure to leaue an impression of filth and staines behinde them.”verbTo soil, stain or smudge.“Why, that’s my bawcock. What, hast smutch’d thy nose? They say it is a copy out of mine.”