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Smitch or smich?

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JF12 | 12:34 Sat 17th Jan 2009 | Word Origins
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My wife (who grew up in Yorkshire in the 1950s and 1960s) uses the word "smitch" (or possibly "smich") to describe the atmosphere in a kitchen resulting from burnt food. It describes the combination of two things: (1) the smell and (2) the smokiness which makes your eyes water. It is obviously a colloquial term. Has anyone else come across its use? Or can anyone suggest an alternative word?
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Smitch has been used in English - though now only in dialects - since the 9th cebtury! It can mean the smoke arising from smouldering material or just dirt/smut/dust.
16:07 Sat 17th Jan 2009
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Used in our household and pronounced "smeech" to specifically refer to the oily fumes from a paraffin stove with a wick that needs trimming.
17:47 Mon 19th Jan 2009

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