smirchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 *smorchen ("to spatter, soil"; attested in besmorchid (“bespattered, soiled all over”)), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a derivative of 中期英語 smeoren, smuren, smeren (“to smear”) or related to 中期英語 smotry (“sooty, grimy”). Compare also 中期英語 bismotered (“bespattered, soiled”), Old French esmorcher (“to torture”), 中期英語 smoterly, smoterlich (“besmirched”), modern English smut.

別の表記

• smurch (obsolete), smerch (obsolete)

名詞

smirch (countable and uncountable, plural smirches)

1. (archaic) Dirt, or a stain.
   • 1998, Michael Foss, People of the First Crusade, →ISBN, page 6:

     Too often, in the years between 800 and 1050, the everyday sun declined through the smirch of flame and smoke of a monastery or town robbed and burnt.

2. (figurative, archaic) A stain on somebody's reputation.
   • 2008, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, →ISBN, page 33:

     there were some business transactions which savored of dangerous speculation, if not dishonesty; and around it all lay the smirch of the Freedmen's Bank.

派生語

動詞

smirch (third-person singular simple present smirches, present participle smirching, simple past and past participle smirched)

1. (transitive, archaic) To dirty; to make dirty.

   Synonyms: besmirch, file, soil; see also Thesaurus:dirty

   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], lines 101–104:

     CELIA. I'll put myself in poor and mean attire, / And with a kind of umber smirch my face; / The like do you; so shall we pass along, / And never stir assailants.

   • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 108:

     Girls thought that by leaping over the fires without being smirched they made sure of a happy marriage.

2. (transitive, figurative, archaic) To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.

   Synonyms: besmirch, libel, muddy; see also Thesaurus:demean

派生語

• besmirch
• unsmirched

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “smirch”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

語源 2

Blend of smear +‎ chirp.

名詞

smirch (plural smirches)

1. (astronomy) A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)
   • 2003, B. S. Sathyaprakash, BF Schutz, “Templates for stellar mass black holes falling into supermassive black holes”, in Classical and Quantum Gravity, volume 20, number 10:

     The strain h(t) produced by a smirch in LISA is given by h(t) = −-A(t)cos[(t) + φ(t)]

   • 2005, John M. T. Thompson, Advances in Astronomy: From the Big Bang to the Solar System, →ISBN, page 133:

     By observing a smirch, LISA offers a unique opportunity to directly map the spacetime geometry around the central object and test whether or not this structure is in accordance with the expectations of general realtivity.

アナグラム

• chirms, chrism