smudger noun2 •One who, or that which, smudges.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! — 1964 •(slang, old-fashioned) A photographer.Smudger An old term for a photographer, one that alludes to dodgy developing. — 2004 formssmudgers
