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smudger

noun — 2 senses

smudger

noun

Etymology From smudge + -er.

1

One who, or that which, smudges.

  • Servile smudgers of history, prattling about an Emil Ludwig and a Thomas Mann season — meaning the Weimar period — as if it had produced me and as if I had used the Republic for a background!1964, William Wasserstrom, Civil Liberties and the Arts: Selections from Twice a Year, 1938-48, page 230:
  • The tools can get rather exotic - spinners, rubber stamps, airbrush, smudgers, and so on.2002, David Bergsland, Introduction to Digital Publishing, page 147:
2

UK, Dated, Slang A photographer.

  • Smudger An old term for a photographer, one that alludes to dodgy developing.2004, Ray Puxley, Britslang: An Uncensored A-Z of the People's Language, Including Rhyming Slang, Robson, published 2004, page 456:

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