blotched
/blɑt͡ʃt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of blotch
Example Sentences
- "The Dutch think no People are so much troubled with the Scurvy as they: But they mistake. There are more blotched Faces in one Town in England, than in the whole Dutch Province [...]"
- "1845, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the Second, The Blind Girl never knew that ceilings were discoloured, walls blotched and bare of plaster here and there, high crevices unstopped and widening every day, beams mouldering and tending downward."
- "Frome turned away again, and taking up his razor stooped to catch the reflection of his stretched cheek in the blotched looking-glass above the wash-stand."
Etymology
Etymology tree English blotch Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English blotched From blotch + -ed.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /blɑt͡ʃt/
- British English: /blɒtʃt/
Inflected Forms
more blotched (comparative)
most blotched (superlative)