blob

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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.

Origin of blob

1400–50; late Middle English; apparently expressive formation

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Related Words for blob

splotch, droplet, glob, blotch, bead, blot, dab, splash, daub, globule, ball, bubble, dot

Examples from the Web for blob

Contemporary Examples of blob

The movie could have been, should have been, The Blob, 21st-centurystyle.
The Distorted Science of Contagion
Kent Sepkowitz
September 23, 2011
Maybe a blob of cigarette ash obscured that particular sentence.
Why Is Obama Reading My Book?
Edmund Morris
March 9, 2010

Historical Examples of blob

The operator manipulated the controls and the blob began to overtake the dot.
The Leech
Phillips Barbee
"I wish I didn't have such a blob of a nose," she said ruefully.
Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman
Emma Speed Sampson
The heart of one was a blob of mud, which gave off a most baleful vapour.
Tropic Days
E. J. Banfield
It was half-past eight by the church clock, the face of which was a blob of brightness.
Meg's Friend
Alice Abigail Corkran
He couldn't reach Casker, on the other side of the gigantic sphere of blob.
One Man's Poison
Robert Sheckley

British Dictionary definitions for blob

blob

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

"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."