smouch
/smuːt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of smutch (“a stain or smudge”).
verb
Alternative form of smutch (“to stain or smudge”).
verb
To take dishonestly or unfairly, to steal from or cheat out of.
noun
Alternative form of smous.
Example Sentences
- "For what kissing and bussing, what Smouching and slabbering one of another, what filthie groping and uncleane handling is not practiced in those dancings"
- "Suppose an artist, after having completed such a picture, in a moment of intoxication, goes into his studio, takes his brush, dips it into black paint, and applies it thereto. Only one smouch and the work of months is destroyed!"
- "[…]and on her breast a baby, wet as she, smiling and cooing, but with a great crimson smouch on its tiny shoulder."
- "[…]So I'll mosey along now, and smouch a couple of case-knives." "Smouch three," he says; "we want one to make a saw out of.""
Etymology
Usage
- American usage