1. smudge - Noun
2. smudge - Verb
A suffocating smoke.
A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.
To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.
To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. David Letterman
"Simon,” said a voice at his shoulder, and he turned to see Izzy, her face a pale smudge between dark hair and dark cloak, looking at him, her expression half-angry, half-sad. "I guess this is the part where we say good-bye? Cassandra Clare
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. Gerard Manley Hopkins
You can't give that to people to pass around and smudge up with their grimy fingers. But it didn't matter, because it never matters to these people because nothing they say is ever fact-checked. Bill Maher
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. Vladimir Nabokov
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. J. R. R. Tolkien