blotched
English
WOTD – 30 June 2021
Etymology
From blotch + -ed.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /blɒtʃt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /blɑt͡ʃt/
- Rhymes: -ɒtʃt
Adjective
blotched (comparative more blotched, superlative most blotched)
- Covered in blotches (“uneven patches of colour or discolouration”).
- Synonyms: blotchy, spotted, spotty
- Antonyms: blotchless, unblotched
- 1743, Anonymous, A Description of Holland; or, the Present State of the United Provinces, London: J. & P. Knapton, p. 52,
- 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.
- 1911 October, Edith Wharton, chapter I, in Ethan Frome (The Scribner Library; SL8), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 895192758, page 41:
- 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.
Derived terms
- side-blotched lizard
Translations
covered in blotches
Verb
blotched
- simple past tense and past participle of blotch
Anagrams
- Bechtold