dollop
noun
verb (used with object)
Origin of dollop
Examples from the Web for dollop
Contemporary Examples of dollop
Dessert is a slice of melt-in-your-mouth treacle tart with a dollop of perfectly tart clotted cream.
And, of course, the whole shebang can be topped with a dollop of hot cheese.
He embraced it, like the nickname “Killer,” and he fed the rage with drugs as required: Every audience demanded its dollop.
To explain this ghostly occurrence, we get a dollop of gossip concerning the recent death of a hated bishop.
It will require an all-hands-on-deck effort combining hard work, political savvy, and even a dollop of good luck.
Historical Examples of dollop
Such a phrase as this might be heard: "What a dollop of fat you have given me!"
Said you give him a dollop o' pudding, and it tasted of soap and hair-oil.
New Treasure SeekersE. (Edith) Nesbit
But before Brother Copas could withdraw the plate a dollop of meat had been dumped upon it.
Brother CopasSir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Then the bows lifted to the first swell, and a dollop of spray flew over them, and rattled against the bridge-screens.
Pincher Martin, O.D.H. Taprell Dorling
A certain weight of jute, termed a “dollop,” is laid upon the feed cloth for each revolution of the latter.