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noun
The black grime or soot of coal or burnt wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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verb
To make foul or dirty; begrime as with the smut of coal; blacken.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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History
From Middle English *colwen, *colȝen (attested in colwed, colwinge), from Old English *colgian, from Proto-West Germanic *koligōn (“to make black as coal, blacken with coal”).
