Smutch

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A stain; a dirty spot.

II. Smutch ·vt To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal.

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to smutch
To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal.--Webster. 'I have smutched my fingers.' The word is provincial...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.