smudge 
< ME. xmoi/i'ii, soil; a var. of smutch.] I. To 
smear or stain with dirt or filth; blacken with 
smoke. [Prov. Eng.] 
Presuming no more wound belongs vnto 't 
Than only to be miudg'd and grim '1 with soot. 
Heywood, Dialogues (Works, ed. 1'earson, 1874, \ I. 167). 
2f. To smoke or cure, as herring. 
In the craft of catching or taking it, and smudging it 
(the herring] (marchant- and chapman-able as it should 
be), it sets a-worke thousands. 
Xashe, Lenten Stuffe (Hart. Misc., V I. 159). 
smudge 1 (fmuj), . [Also smutch: see smudgr 1 . 
.] 1. A spot; stain; smear. 
Every one, however, feels the magic of the shapely 
strokes and vague smudges, which . . . reveal not only 
an object, but an artist's conception of it. 
Art Jour., March, 1888, p. 67. 
Sometimes a page bearing a special smudge, or one show- 
ing an unusual amount of interlineation, seemed to re- 
quire particular treatment. Harper's Mag., LXXX. 448. 
2. The scrapings and cleanings of paint-pots, 
collected and used to cover the outer sides of 
roof-boards as a bed for roofing-canvas. Car- 
Builder's Diet. [Eng.] 
smudge 2 (smuj), v. t. ; pret. and pp. smudged, 
ppr. smudging. [Appar. another use of smudge'-, 
confused with smother.'] 1. To stifle ; smother. 
[Prov. Eng.] 2. To make a smudge in; fumi- 
gate with a smudge : as, to smudge a tent so as 
to drive away insects. [U. S.] 
smudge 2 (smuj), . [See smudge"*, r.] 1. A 
suffocating smoke. 
I will sacrifice the first stanza on your critical altar, 
and let it consume either in flame or smudge as It choose. 
W. Mason. To Gray. (Correspondence of Gray and 
[Mason, cxv.) 
2. A heap of combustibles partially ignited 
and emitting a dense smoke; especially, such 
a fire made in or near a house, tent, or the like, 
so as to raise a dense smoke to repel insects. 
I have had a smudge made in a chafing-dish at my bed- 
side. Mrs. Clavers [Mrs. C. M. Kirkland], Forest Life. 
smudger (smuj'er), . One who or that which 
smudges, in any sense. [Rare.] 
And the man called the name of his wife Charah (mudg- 
er\ for she was the stainer of life. 
S. Pratt, quoted in The Academy, Oct. 27, 1888, p. 269. 
smudgy 1 (smuj'i), a. [< smudge 1 + -y 1 .] Stained 
or blackened with smudge ; smeared : as, a 
smudgy shop. 
I do not suppose that the book is at all rare, or in any 
way remarkable, save, perhaps, for its wretched woodcuts 
and its villainously smudgy letterpress. 
X. and Q., 7th ser., X. 91. 
smudgy 2 (smuj'i), a. [< smudge 2 + -y 1 .] 1. 
Making a smudge or dense smoke: as, a smudgy 
fire. 
For them [the artists of Magna Gracia] the most per- 
fect lamp was the one that was the most ornamental. If 
more light was needed, other smudgy lamps were added. 
Pop. Sd. Mo., XIII. 267. 
2. Stifling; close. [Prov. Eng.] 
Hot or close, e. g. the fire is so large that it makes the 
room feel quite hot and smudgy. The same perhaps as 
smothery. Hallitcell. 
smug 1 (smug), a. and . [Early mod. E. also 
smoog; for*smuck, <MLG. LG.s>i = NFries. 
smok = G. schmuck = Dan. smuk = Sw. dial. 
muck, smock (G. and Scand. forms recent and 
prob. < LG., but appar. ult. of MHG. origin), 
neat, trim, spruce, elegant, fair; from the 
noun, MHG. gesmuc, G. schmuck, ornament, < 
MHG. smucken, G. schmucken = MLG. smucken, 
ornament, adorn, orig. dress, a secondary form 
of MHG. smiegen = AS. smedgan, creep into, 
hence put on (a garment) : see smock, n.] I. . 
1. Smooth; sleek; neat; trim; spruce; fine; 
also, affectedly proper; unctuous; especially, 
affectedly nice in dress ; satisfied with one's 
own appearance; hence, self-satisfied in any 
respect. 
A beggar, that was used to come so smug upon the 
mart. Shak., M. of V., iii. 1. 49. 
Oh, that imug old Woman ! there 's no enduring her Af- 
fectation of Youth. Steele, Grief A-la-JIode, iii. 1. 
Smug Sydney, too, thy bitter page shall seek 
Byron, Eng. Bards and Scotch Reviewers. 
Stinking and savoury, smug and gruff. 
Browning, Holy-Cross Day. 
2. Affectedly or conceitedly smart. 
That trim and smug saying. 
Annotations on Glanville (1682), p. 184. (Latham.) 
II. . One who is affectedly proper and nice ; 
a self-satisfied person. [Slang.] 
Students . . . who, almost continually at study, allow 
themselves no time for relaxation, . . . are absent-minded 
and seem often offended at the trivialities of a joke 
They become labelled smugs, and are avoided by their 
class-mates. The Lancet, 1889 II. 471 
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smug 1 (smug), r. t. ; pret. and pp. smugged, ppr. 
*/// m/i/itu/. [( .s'w,'/ , a.] To make smug or 
spruce : often with up. 
Smuq up your beetle-brows, none look grimly. 
Middleton and Rowley, Spanish Uypsy, iv. 1. 
No sooner doth a young man see his sweetheart coming 
but he smugs himself up. Burton, Anat of Mel., p. 518. 
smug 2 (smug). r. t.; pret. and pp. smugged, ppr. 
smiu/ging. [Prob. abbr. of smuggle, or from the 
same source.] 1. To confiscate summarily, as 
boys used to confiscate tops, marbles, etc., when 
the game was played out of season. [Prov. Eng. ] 
I shouldn't mindhis licking me ; I'dsmug his money and 
get his halfpence or somethink. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 568. 
2. To hush up. [Slang.] 
She wanted a guarantee that the case should be smugged, 
or, in other words, compromised. 
Morning Chronicle, Oct. 3, 1857. (Encyc. Diet.) 
smug s t (smug), n. [Perhaps so called as being 
blackened with soot or smoke (see smudge 1 ), or 
else as being "a neat, handy fellow" (Halli- 
well).] A smith. 
A smug of Vulcan's forging trade, 
Besmoaked with sea-cole fire. 
Rowland, Knave of Clubs (1611)i (Halliwell.) 
I must now 
A golden handle make for my wife's fann. 
Worke, my fine Smugges. Dekker, Londons Tempe. 
smug-boat (smug'bot), . A contraband boat 
on the coast of China; an opium-boat. 
smug-faced (smug'fast), a. Having a smug or 
precise face ; prim-faced. 
I once procured for a smug-faced client of mine a good 
douse o' the chops, which put a couple of hundred pounds 
into his pocket J- Baillie. 
smuggle 1 (smug'l), r. ; pret. and pp. smuggled, 
ppr. smuggling. [Also formerly or dial, smuckle 
(< D.); = G. schmuygeln = Sw. snmggla = Dan. 
smugle, < LG. smuggeln = D. smokkelcn, smug- 
gle (cf. D. smuigen, eat secretly, ter smuig, 
secretly, in hugger-mugger, Dan. ismug, adv., 
secretly, privately, smughandel, contraband 
trade, smoge, a narrow (secret) passage, Sw. 
smyg, a lurking-hole, Icel.smuga, a hole to creep 
through, smugall, penetrating, smugligr, pene- 
trating) : all from a strong verb found in Icel. 
smjuga (pret. smo, mod. smaug, pi. smugu, pp. 
smoginn), creep, creep through a hole, put on a 
garment, = Norw. smjuga, creep (cf. Sw. smy- 
ga, sneak, smuggle), = AS. smedgan, smugan, 
creep, = MHG. smiegen, G. schmiegen, cling to, 
bend, ply, get into : see smock, smug 1 .] I. tram. 
1. To import or export secretly, and contrary 
to law ; import or export secretly without pay- 
ing the duties imposed by law ; also, to intro- 
duce into trade or consumption in violation 
of excise laws; in Scotland, to manufacture 
(spirits, malt, etc.) illicitly. 
Where, tippling punch, grave Cato's self you'll see, 
And Amor Patrise vending smuggled tea. Crabbe. 
2. To convey, introduce, or handle clandestine- 
ly : as, to smuggle something out of the way. 
II. intrans. To practise secret illegal expor- 
tation or importation of goods ; export or im- 
port goods without payment of duties; also, to 
violate excise laws. See I., 1, and sin uggling. 
Now there are plainly but two ways of checking this 
practice either the temptation to smuggle must be di- 
minished by lowering the duties, or the difficulties in the 
way of smuggling must be increased. Cyc. of Commerce. 
smuggle 2 (smug'l), r. t. ; pret. and pp. smug- 
gled, ppr. smuggling. [Appar. another use of 
smuggle 1 .] To cuddle or fondle. 
Oh, the little lips ! and 'tis the best-natured little dear. 
[Smuggles and kisses it] 
Farquhar, Love and a Bottle, i. 1. 
smuggler (smug'ler), n. [Early mod. E. smug- 
ler; also smuckler; = G. schmuggler = Dan. smiig- 
ler = Sw. smugglare (cf. F. smuggler, < E.), < LG. 
smuggeler = D. smokkelaar; as smuggle 1 + -erl.] 
1. One who smuggles ; one who imports or ex- 
ports secretly and contrary to law either con- 
traband goods or dutiable goods without pay- 
ing the customs; also, in Scotland, an illicit 
distiller. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling 
goods. 
smuggling (smug'ling), n. The offense of car- 
rying, or causing to be carried, across the boun- 
dary of a nation or district, goods which are 
dutiable, without either paying the duties or 
allowing the goods to be subjected to the reve- 
nue laws ; or the like carrying of goods the tran- 
sit of which is prohibited. In a more general sense 
it is applied to the violation of legal restrictions on tran- 
sit, whether by revenue laws or blockades, and the viola- 
tion of excise laws, by introducing into trade or consump- 
tion prohibited articles, or articles evading taxation. In 
either use it implies clandestine evasion of law. 
smut-ball 
smugly (smug'li), adv. In a smug manner; 
neatly; sprucely. 
A Sunday face, 
Too smugly proper for a world of sin. 
Lmmll, Fitz Adam s Story. 
smugness (smug'nes), . The state or charac- 
ter of being smug; neatness; spruceness; self- 
satisfaction; conceited smartness. 
She looks like an old Coach new painted, affecting an 
unseemly Smugness whilst she is ready to drop in pieces. 
Wycherley, Plain Dealer, ii. 1. 
smuly (smu'li), a. [Perhaps for *smooty, a 
contracted form of "smootli/i/, adj.] Looking 
smoothly demure. Halliuell. [Prov. Eng.] 
smur (smur), n. [Also smurr; prob. a contr. of 
smother; or < smoor, smore, stifle: see swore 1 .] 
Fine rain. [Scotch.] 
Our hopes for fine weather were for the moment dashed ; 
a smurr came over, and the thin veil of the shower toned 
down the colors of the red houses. 
W. Black, House-boat, vi. 
smur (smur), v. t. ; pret. and pp. smurred, ppr. 
smiirring. [Also smurr; < smur, n.] To rain 
slightly; drizzle. Jamieson. [Scotch.] 
smurcnt, ''. An obsolete spelling of smirch. 
smurry (smur'i), a. [< smur + -y 1 .] Having 
smur; characterized by smur. [Scotch.] 
The cold hues of green through which we had been sail 
ing on this smurry afternoon. W. Black, House-boat, x. 
smut (smut), n. [Prob. a var. of smifl, < AS. 
smitta, a spot, stain, smut, = D. smet, a blot, 
stain. The variation is appar. due to the in- 
fluence of the related words, ME. Usmotered, 
smeared, etc., and to the words cited under 
smutch, smudge 1 : see smudge*.] 1. A spot 
made with soot, coal, or the like ; also, the foul- 
ing matter itself. 
With white apron and cap she ventured into the draw- 
ing-room, and was straightway saluted by a joyous dance 
of those monads called vulgarly smuts. 
Bulwer, Caxtons, xiv. 2. 
2. Obscene or filthy language. 
He does not stand upon decency in conversation, but 
will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be In the 
room. Addison, The Lover, No. 89. 
3. A fungous disease of plants, affecting espe- 
cially the cereal plants, to many of which it is 
exceedingly destructive, it is caused by fungi of 
the family Uetilagineee. There are in the United States 
two well-defined kinds of smut in cereals : (a) the black 
smut, produced by Ustilago segetum, in which the head is 
mostly changed to a black dust; (6) the stinking smut 
(called bunt in England), which shows only when the 
kernel is broken open, the usual contents being found to 
be replaced by a black unctuous powder. The stinking 
smut is caused by two species of fungus, which differ only 
in microscopic characters TiUetia tritici, with rough 
spores, and T. fastens, with smooth snores. It is the most 
destructive disease of wheat known, not infrequently caus- 
ing the loss of half of the crop or more. It occurs to some 
extent throughout all the wheat-growing regions, but is 
especially common in Indiana, Iowa, and adjacent States, 
as well as in California and Europe. The disease does not 
spread from plant to plant or from field to field, but the 
infection takes place at the time the seed sprouts. No 
remedy can be applied after the grain is sown, but the 
disease can be prevented by sowing clean seed in clean soil 
and covering well. Smutty seed can be purified by wet- 
ting thoroughly with a solution of blue vitriol, using one 
pound or more to a gallon of water. Black smut may be 
similarly treated. U. Maydis is the smut of Indian corn ; 
U. destmens, of Setaria glauca; U. urseolum, of many spe- 
cies of Carex, etc. See Ustilago, TiUetia, maize smut, bunt*, 
bunt-ear, burnt-ear, brand, 6. 
4. Earthy, worthless coal, such as is often found 
at the outcrop of a seam. In Pennsylvania also 
called black-dirt, blossom, and crop. 
Smut (smut), v. ; pret. and pp. smutted, ppr. 
smutting. [< smut, n.] I. traits. 1. To stain 
or mark with smut; blacken with coal, soot, or 
other dirty substance. 
Tis the opinion of these poor People that, if they can 
but have the happiness to be bur(ed in a shroud smutted 
with this Celestial Fire, it will certainly secure them from 
the Flames of Hell. Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 97. 
2. To affect with the disease called smut; 
mildew. 
Mildew falleth upon corn, and smutttth it. Bacon. 
3. Figuratively, to tarnish; defile; make im- 
pure; blacken. 
He is far from being smutted with the soil of atheism. 
Dr. a. More. 
4. To make obscene. 
Here one gay shew and costly habit tries, . . . 
Another smuts his scene. 
Steele, Conscious Lovers, Prol. 
II. intrans. 1. To gather smut; be converted 
into smut. 
White red-eared wheat . . . seldom smuts. 
Mortimer, Husbandry. 
2. To give off smut; crock, 
smut-ball (smut'bal), n. 1. A fungus of the 
genus TiUetia. 2. A fungus of the genus Lyco~ 
perdon; a puffball. 
