English Dictionary

smudge

IPA（発音記号）

/smʌd͡ʒ/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 アメリカ英語 特に 句中用法

A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. / Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.

日本語の意味

傷や汚れ、しみ（特に濃い色やすすによるもの） / 燻煙、濃い煙（消毒や儀式などに用いられる煙）

She noticed a small smudge on the photograph right after she had finished framing it.

額に入れ終えた直後、彼女は写真に小さな汚れがあることに気づいた。

意味（1）

A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.

There was a smudge on the paper.

意味（2）

Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.

意味（3）

(US) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.

Then smudges are in vogue,—heaps of damp combustibles placed on the windward side of the house and partially ignited, that their inky steams may smother the mosquitoes while we take our chance. I have had a smudge made in a chafing-dish at my bedside, after a serious deliberation between choking and being devoured at small mouthfuls; and I conscientiously recommend choking, or running the risk of it, at least.

意味（4）

(paganism, especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.

Devil's dirt or asafetida ground together with fenugreek and black cumin seed is used as a smudge against witches and […]

smudges （ plural ）