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smudgers

smudgers is the plural of smudger.

Meaning of smudger

Noun

smudger (plural smudgers)

  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
  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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Questions about smudgers

What is smudgers the plural of?
Smudgers is the plural of smudger.

Words near smudgers in the dictionary

  1. smudgeable
  2. smudged
  3. smudgedly
  4. smudgeproof
  5. smudger
  6. smudgers
  7. smudges
  8. smudgey
  9. smudgier
  10. smudgiest
  11. smudgily

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