noun / verb
dollop
DAHL-up/ˈdɑːləp/
A small rounded amount of a soft substance, or serving it in such amounts.
The spoon holds a rounded dollop of thick yogurt above the bowl.
Etymology
Earlier dallop meant a patch, tuft, or clump of grass. The meaning shifted to a lump or glob, including a spoonful of soft food; the dialect word’s deeper origin is uncertain.
In context
what we're going to use is a bit of the goat cheese that we've thinned with the milk and put that in a dollop in the middle like this
More examples
- Two dollops of sour cream soften the chili's heat.
- He dollops yogurt onto the fresh berries.
- A dollop of blue paint sits on the palette.
Forms
dollop · dollops · dolloped · dolloping
Similar words
- blob
- Suggests an irregular soft mass, not necessarily a serving.
- spoonful
- Measures an amount by spoon capacity rather than rounded shape.