blob

[ blob ]

/ blɒb /

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noun

a globule of liquid; bubble.

a small lump, drop, splotch, or daub: A blob of paint marred the surface.

an object, especially a large one, having no distinct shape or definition: a blob on the horizon.

a dull, slow-witted, and uninteresting person.

verb (used with object), blobbed, blob·bing.

to mark or splotch with blobs.

Nearby words

Origin of blob

1400–50; late Middle English; apparently expressive formation

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Examples from the Web for blob

The movie could have been, should have been, The Blob, 21st-centurystyle.
The Distorted Science of Contagion|Kent Sepkowitz|September 23, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Maybe a blob of cigarette ash obscured that particular sentence.
Why Is Obama Reading My Book?|Edmund Morris|March 9, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Soon they spied the blob of Mr Dudeney's hat against the sky a long way off.
Rewards and Fairies|Rudyard Kipling
"I wish I didn't have such a blob of a nose," she said ruefully.
Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman|Emma Speed Sampson

Reuben Cory watched his tall brother lift a candle in its pewter sconce and trim a blob of wax with his thumbnail.
Wilderness of Spring|Edgar Pangborn
A blob of blue smoke curled out of a hole the size of a hogshead in a steep bank overhung with alders.
Cabin Fever|B. M. Bower
At any rate, there is the great impassable waterfall, the blob above it and below.
A Book of Natural History|Various

British Dictionary definitions for blob

blob

/ (blɒb) /

noun

a soft mass or drop, as of some viscous liquid

a spot, dab, or blotch of colour, ink, etc

a indistinct or shapeless form or object

a slang word for condom

verb blobs, blobbing or blobbed

(tr) to put blobs, as of ink or paint, on

Derived Formsblobby, adjective

Word Origin for blob

C15: perhaps of imitative origin; compare bubble

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Word Origin and History for blob

blob

"drop, globule," 1725, from a verb meaning "to make or mark with blobs" (early 15c.), perhaps related to bubble. The same word was used 16c. in a sense "bubble, blister."