noun / verb
blob
BLAHB/blɑːb/
A small shapeless mass or spot, or to form or mark with one.
A small blob of thick blue paint lies beside the brush.
Etymology
The earlier verb blob meant to make or mark with blobs; the noun also formerly named bubbles and blisters before its recorded “drop, globule” sense. A relationship to bubble is possible, not established.
In context
we've got those little uh sort of chevron shaped pads and you bridge a solder blob across those to close those addresses
More examples
- She blobbed glue onto the cardboard.
- Several bright blobs spread across the wet surface.
- The child is blobbing colors together with a sponge.
Forms
blob · blobs · blobbed · blobbing