smudge vs splatch

smudge

noun
  • A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. 

  • Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation. 

  • A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation. 

  • A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. 

verb
  • To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging). 

  • To stifle or smother with smoke. 

  • To soil or smear with dirt. 

  • To obscure by blurring; to smear. 

  • To use dense smoke to protect from insects. 

  • To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation). 

splatch

noun
  • A blot or splash. 

verb
  • To move in a manner that causes splashing or spreading of material. 

  • To manipulate roughly or crudely. 

  • To mark with a splatch. 

How often have the words smudge and splatch occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )