smudging

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Verb

1. present participle of smudge#English|smudge

Noun

smudging (plural smudgings)

1. The act of something being smudged.
2. A stain or smear left by something being smudged.
3. (neopaganism) Suffumigation.
   • 2002, Raven Kaldera, ‎Tannin Schwartzstein, The Urban Primitive: Paganism in the Concrete Jungle, page 36:

     One of the most common forms of purification is done with smoke, using some kind of smoking or smudging.

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