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blatch

blatch noun: blacking, blackening.

Noun

blatch (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Blacking, blackening.

Verb

blatch (third-person singular simple present blatches, present participle blatching, simple past and past participle blatched)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To blacken; to smear with blacking; to stain or mark with soot or coal.

Forms of blatch

third-person singular presentblatches
present participleblatching
past participleblatched
pastblatched

Origin of blatch

From Middle English blacche (“black pigment or dye; black colour; black individual”), from Old English blæċċe (“black matter”).

From Middle English blacchen, from the noun above.

Questions about blatch

What does blatch mean?
Blatch means blacking, blackening.
What part of speech is blatch?
Blatch can be a noun or a verb.

Words near blatch in the dictionary

  1. blatancies
  2. blatancy
  3. blatant
  4. blatantly
  5. blatantness
  6. blatch
  7. Blatchbridge
  8. Blatcherism
  9. Blatchford
  10. Blatchfords
  11. blate

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