meaning of smudge
1. A suffocating smoke.
2. A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
3. That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.
4. To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.
5. To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.
6. a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his
">cheek"