noun / verb

glop

GLAHP/ɡlɑːp/

A thick, sticky mess, or to apply it carelessly.

The thick glop slumps across the plate in sticky lumps and messy smears.

An unappetizing mound of thick gray-brown sludge slumps across a plain plate, with uneven lumps, sticky folds, and messy smears.

Etymology

Glop imitates the sound of something thick and unappetizing hitting a dinner plate. Its original meaning, “inferior food,” supplies the unpleasant, messy image behind the broader substance sense.

In context

Small House Farm9:31

you take a viscous glop of old beer stale beer and brown sugar and rotten bananas something like that mix it all up and just plaster it on a tree

Gardening for Moths w/ Jim McCormac

More examples

The cafeteria serves gray glop that nobody wants to eat.
He glops frosting onto the cake without spreading it evenly.
She glopped too much glue onto the cardboard.

Forms

glop · glops · glopped · glopping

gloppy adjective — Thick, sticky, and unpleasantly messy.

Similar words

goo: Names a sticky substance without necessarily suggesting unappetizing food.
sludge: Usually suggests muddy sediment or thick industrial waste.
slather: Means to spread generously, not necessarily carelessly or messily.