I. ˈbläb noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English
1. now dialect Britain : blister , bubble
2.
a. : a small drop, globule, or lump of something viscid or thick
a blob of melting butter
b. : a spot of color
candles burned in a golden blob — Bruce Marshall
also : daub 4
to the uninitiated his paintings were mere blobs, rich in color but meaningless
c. : something ill-defined or amorphous
small blobs and faint glimmers of satire — Time
a blob of land looming up in the dusk
— sometimes used of persons when considered only as shapes viewed
a big sluggish blob
3. : an imperfect or harsh note on a wind instrument
4. : miller's-thumb 1
5. : a score of zero in cricket : goose egg
6. New England : blossom
II. transitive verb
( blobbed ; blobbed ; blobbing ; blobs )
Etymology: Middle English (northern dialect) bloben, from blob, n.
: to mark with blobs : splotch , blot