Besmutch

/bɪˈsmʌtʃ/ verb

To soil or stain with smut or soot; to blacken or dirty with fine dark powder.

A variant of 'besmut' formed by adding a '-ch' ending, possibly influenced by words like 'smutch.' This variant was less common but appeared in dialect writing and regional speech.

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