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blotched

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /blɒtʃt/ / /blɑt͡ʃt/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English blotch English -ed English blotched From blotch + -ed.

  1. Covered in blotches (“uneven patches of colour or discolouration”).

    The Dutch think no People are so much troubled with the Scurvy as they: But they mistake. There are more blotched Faces in one Town in England, than in the whole Dutch Province [...]

    1845, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the Second, The Blind Girl never knew that ceilings were discoloured, walls blotched and bare of plaster here and there, high crevices unstopped and widening every day, beams mouldering and tending downward.

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English blotch English -ed English blotched From blotch + -ed.

  1. simple past and past participle of blotch