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smudgy

[ smuhj-ee ]

adjective

, smudg·i·er, smudg·i·est.
  1. marked with smudges; smeared; smeary.
  2. emitting a stifling smoke; smoky.
  3. British Dialect. humid; sweltering; sultry.


smudgy

/ smʌdʒɪ /

adjective

  1. smeared, blurred, or soiled, or likely to become so
  2. made deliberately indistinct or cloudy

    smudgy colours

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈsmudginess, noun
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Other Words From

  • smudgi·ly adverb
  • smudgi·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of smudgy1

First recorded in 1840–50; smudge + -y 1
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Example Sentences

As I strained my eyes to look beyond the smudgy, glass window of my tiny bush plane, the view came at me like a torrent.

Her hair was disheveled, her sleeves rolled back, and her face smudged from her smudgy fingers.

And would the sea itself permit vile iron and smudgy coal to speck its immaculate bosom?

With his fingers added up to his satisfaction and the total found correct, he again turned his gaze out of the smudgy window.

Cap'n Sproul busied himself with a little pile of smudgy account-books, each representing a road district of the town.

The Daily Intelligencer was spread on a newsstand, a smudgy black bannerhead fouling its pure bosom.

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