smatchy a EDD smatch sb 1: ~ . Of food, esp salt or pickled pork, beef, etc, tainted, spoiled, improperly cured. Cp FOUSTY.
1897 J A Folklore x, 210 A fisherman will complain of the pork supplied him being smatchy. 1924 ENGLAND 53 And I have heard some of the men grow] that more than once they had 'got home wid not'in' but a bundle o' dirty clo'es an' a gad of smatchy [tainted] fippers!' 1937 DEVINE 46 ~ Mouldy; unpalatable. Said of meats insufficiently salted, in particular. Bad taste or flavour in pork etc. C 71-105 ~ Used to describe certain foods such as meat, and especially fat-back pork (salt) when it became stale and unfit to eat. C 71-129 ~ used in connection with salt meat which somehow had the pickle taken from it. When the meat was boiled it had a taste my father always called 'smatchy.'
