smutch – English noun declension

Noun: smutch

Singular	smutch
Plural	smutches

As let a man sticke a Candle to a stone wall, though the Candle do not burne through it, yet it will leaue a shrewd smutch behind it, soyling the wall, so as it will not easily be wyped out. Thus it is with tentations, though they doe not all the mischiefe they would and might doe, they will yet be sure to leaue an impression of filth and staines behinde them. [1629, John Smith, “An Exposition of the Lord’s Prayer”, in Essex doue, presenting the world with a few of her oliue branches, London: George Edwardes, page 124:]
[…] Examine well
His milk-white hand. The palm is hardly clean—
But here and there an ugly smutch appears.
Foh! ’twas a bribe that left it. [1785, William Cowper, “Book IV. The Winter Evening.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 168:]
I could favour you with sundry touches
Of the paint-smutches with which the Duchess
Heightened the mellowness of her cheek’s yellowness [1849, Robert Browning, “The Flight of the Duchess”, in Poems, volume 2, London: Chapman and Hall, page 390:]
Strether felt his character receive, for the instant, a smutch from all the wrong things he had suspected or believed. [1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:]
Looking out of her window, she was alerted by a smutch of bronze light glowering on this Anglo-Flemish landscape. [1979, Patrick White, The Twyborn Affair, Penguin, published 1981, Part 3, p. 411:]

Perhaps an alteration of smudge, smatch, or smooch.

English Nouns smidgen.

English noun forms of smutch