splotchn.
/splɒtʃ/, U.S. /splɑtʃ/ A large irregular spot or patch of light, colour, or the like; a blot, smear, or stain. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > stained condition > stain > blotch
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 266 Betonie is a soueraigne herbe..for the blacke sploches that haue continued a long time vpon the skin.
1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master v. i Thou spot, sploach of my family and blood!
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 310 If..the Leather..be Black and White in Splotches.
1755 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 373/1 See, from thy bite rise blister'd blotches, And from thy ordure filthy splotches.
1812 R. Wilson Private Diary (1862) I. 247 During my progress, the carter's nose twice froze in splotches as big as half-a-crown.
1863 M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Victory I. v. 111 The leaves were crumpled, and smeared with stains and splotches of grease.
1885 A. Brassey In Trades 145 Their dark-brown leaves, covered with bright splotches of red and yellow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
splotchv.
/splɒtʃ/, U.S. /splɑtʃ/ transitive. To cover with splotches; to splash or stain in patches.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > mark with patches [verb (transitive)]
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > blotch
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1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. ii. 71 The bumps in his flesh, which was like a bruised Pig (but not so white), splotch'd all over.
1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah viii. 256 He splotches his turban with pink paint.
1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur iv. iii. 176 In places black moss splotched the otherwise bald stones.
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