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blob
[ blob ]
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)
- to mark or splotch with blobs.
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Derived Forms
- ˈblobby, adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blob1
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Origin of blob1
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Example Sentences
The moist rectangle of cooked meat and molten blob of cheese are then layered in a hard roll.
What happens is that the inflammation of the liver triggered by the infection causes it to contract and it becomes a fibrous blob.
This earned him a Tea Party Nation tweet: "Liberal Jello blob Chris Christie thanks Obama by expanding Obamacare to N.J."
The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers are represented by a gape-mouthed dancing blob named Big Red.
The movie could have been, should have been, The Blob, 21st-centurystyle.
A blob of blue smoke curled out of a hole the size of a hogshead in a steep bank overhung with alders.
A great blob of brown sos spurted on to master's chick, and myandrewed down his shert-collar and virging-white weskit.
"I wish I didn't have such a blob of a nose," she said ruefully.
Looking down again, they saw that a blob of something was growing on the pavement ten feet from them.
The parcel was sealed with three neat patches of wax, and on each blob was imprinted the letters "A M" in a monogram.
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