[f. SMUDGE v.4] A slight sign or indication (of laughter, etc.).
1866. Carlyle, Remin. (1881), II. 126. A bright dimpling chuckle sometimes (smudge of laughter, the Scotch call it).
1898. G. A. Smith, H. Drummond, i. (1899), 3. There was never a glimpse of a phylactery nor a smudge of ‘unction.’
