Word of the Day:
smeary
What It Means
Having or showing smears.
Having a consistency like grease; covered with such a substance.
Smeary in Context
“[…] stamped again and again in smeary red ink that looked like blood, was one word: CANCEL.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English *smery, *smeri, from Old English smeoruwiġ (“fatty, greasy, unctious, smeary”), from Proto-West Germanic *smerwig, equivalent to smear + -y.
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