blotch
/blɑt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.28 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An uneven patch of color or discoloration.
noun
An irregularly shaped area.
noun
Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain.
Example Sentences
- "1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, London: J. & R. Tonson, 12th edition, Volume I, No. 16, p. 68, […] in healing those Blotches and Tumours which break out in the body […]"
- "Since the day in which this reformation began, by how many strange and critical turns has it been perfected and handed down, if not, entirely without spot or wrinkle,—at least, without great blotches or marks of anility."
- "Snow lay on the croft and river-bank in undulations softer than the limbs of infancy; […] it clothed the rough turnip-field with whiteness, and made the sheep look like dark blotches;"
- "1921, Wallace Stevens, Sur Ma Guzzla Gracile, Palace of the Babies, in Poetry, Volume 19, No. 1, The disbeliever walked the moonlit place, Outside the gates of hammered serafin, Observing the moon-blotches on the walls."
- "At Coleman's Hill, the upper beds consist of yellowish, soft, gritty sandstone, containing some small calcareous fragments, a few pebbles of quartz, blotches of red shale, and fragments of sandstone with impressions of stems of plants."
- "His shirt showed big blotches of moisture, and the sweat was rolling in clear drops along the creases in his brown neck."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /blɑt͡ʃ/
- British English: /blɒtʃ/