noun / verb
glob
GLAHB/ɡlɑːb/
A shapeless lump of soft or sticky material, or to form such lumps.
A sticky glob of blue paint rests beside the palette knife.
Etymology
The origin is uncertain, but glob may have been suggested by blob and gob. Their meanings of a drop or lump fit the small, soft mass named by glob.
In context
the brain is a wet lump of fat and protein, no firmer than a glob of tofu
More examples
- She wipes a glob of frosting off the counter.
- The thick paint globs together instead of spreading smoothly.
- Two globs of mud cling to the bottom of my shoe.
Forms
glob · globs · globbed · globbing