blotched

adj
/blɒtʃt/UK/blɑt͡ʃt/US

Etymology

From blotch + -ed.

  1. derived from botsen
  2. inherited from bōtettan
  3. inherited from bocchen
  4. compounded as blotch — “blot + botch
  5. suffixed as blotched — “blotch + ed

Definitions

  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 [...]
    • Frome turned away again, and taking up his razor stooped to catch the reflection of his stretched cheek in the blotched looking-glass above the wash-stand.
  2. simple past and past participle of blotch

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA