a. Obs. [f. prec. sb. + -Y.] Smutted with ‘bletch’; inky, sooty, dirty.
1520. Whitinton, Vulg. (1527), 25. Thou blurrest and blottest them as thou wert a bletchy sowter [atramentosi sarctoris].
1633. J. Clarke, Two-f. Praxis, 43.
a. Obs. [f. prec. sb. + -Y.] Smutted with ‘bletch’; inky, sooty, dirty.
1520. Whitinton, Vulg. (1527), 25. Thou blurrest and blottest them as thou wert a bletchy sowter [atramentosi sarctoris].
1633. J. Clarke, Two-f. Praxis, 43.
