smudgerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

smudger (複数形 smudgers)

1. One who, or that which, smudges.
   • 1964, William Wasserstrom, Civil Liberties and the Arts: Selections from Twice a Year, 1938-48 (page 230)

     Servile smudgers of history, prattling about an Emil Ludwig and a Thomas Mann season — meaning the Weimar period — as if it had produced me and as if I had used the Republic for a background!

   • 2002, David Bergsland, Introduction to Digital Publishing (page 147)

     The tools can get rather exotic - spinners, rubber stamps, airbrush, smudgers, and so on.

2. (dated, slang, Britain) A photographer.
   • 2004, Ray Puxley, Britslang: An Uncensored A-Z of the People's Language, Including Rhyming Slang, Robson, published 2004, page 456:

     Smudger An old term for a photographer, one that alludes to dodgy developing.