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smirch

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
smirch /sməːtʃ/

▶verb

1 make dirty.

2 discredit; taint.

▶noun

1 a dirty mark or stain.

2 a flaw.

– origin C15: prob. symbolic.

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