smeary

Meaning

  1. Having or showing smears.
  2. Tending to smear or soil.
  3. Having a consistency like grease; covered with such a substance.

Etymology

In summary

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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