Smutch

n. [From smack, q. v.] 1. Taste; tincture. [Obs. or vulgar.] Thy life hath had some smatch of honor in it. Shak. 2. [Ger. schmatzer, schmätzer, steinschmatzer.] A certain bird. Johnson.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SMUTCHED (smŭcht); p. pr. & vb. n. SMUTCHING.] [From smoke, q. v.] To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal. [Written also smooch.] B. Jonson.