Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A soft, amorphous mass.
- n. A daub, as of color.
- v. To splash or daub with blobs; splotch.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small globe of liquid; a dewdrop; a blister; a bubble; a small lump, splotch, or daub.
- n. The bag of a honey-bee.
- n. The under lip.
- n. A cottoid fish, Uranidea richardsoni, a kind of miller's-thumb.
- n. In cricket, no score; zero; a duck's-egg (which see).
Wiktionary
- n. A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
- n. dialect A bubble, a bleb.
- n. A small freshwater fish (Uranidea richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.
- n. (Zoöl.) A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an indistinct shapeless form
- v. make a spot or mark onto
Etymologies
- Possibly formed through mimesis, similarly to bleb and blubber. (Wiktionary)
- From Middle English blober, bubble, bubbling, probably of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Most inept alien The "blob" - a giant amoeba which, in the 1953 movie, terrorises the small community of Downington PA.”
“I have something – a blob of personality with a name attached to it – and i spend the book discovering what that blob is and what it isn’t.”
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“If one assumes that the black blob is the white blob’s shadow (which is far from conclusive) I can see how you can estimate its altitude, but where did they pull that speed measurement from?”
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“The blob is the size of our own Milky Way galaxy and it is 650 million light years away.”
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“Amsterdam airport already uses such so-called blob machines, which show an outline of the body.”
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“And if the blob is a character, it gets identified with a colour and stays like that.”
“Beside the blob is a glass goblet, one of the products of her work with Avalari, an apprentice glassblower before his impression into the Hamorian fleet.”
“We begin with getting a BlobStream that we can use to read the blob, which is 16MB in size.”
“The button you pressed in Cydia remotely saves what's called an SHSH blob, which is the”
“International Inquirer that her G-spot is really more like a G-blob, which is roughly about 10 times the size of a normal G-spot.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blob’.
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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Of Imitative Origin
Words formed in imitation of the sound of the things they signify.
bawl, biff, blizzard, blob, blooper, bob, boff, bomb, bonkers, boo, borborygmus, brouhaha and 148 more...
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Imprecise Units of Measurement
A list of terms for units of measurement that are less than exact, such as dessert-spoonful.
two shakes, dessert-spoonful, a pinch, a bit, some, smidge, smidgin, dollop, drop, fleck, smack, sprinkling and 187 more...
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MANY A WORD!
This is just a list, right, that I'm gonna, like, fill with words, that, like, are every word that I can, like, think of with, ahhmm, my brain.
and, able, art, ass, algebra, amp, ankle, booze, bong, aura, bling, bright and 134 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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Words that can be spelled on an upsid...
Imagine my joy when I was wearing my calculator watch and was first introduced to someone named Leslie - there was exactly enough room on the display for 317537.14.
Edit: I've discove...hi, hello, leslie, sheesh, she, bells, hells, hog, boss, goggles, he, bob and 233 more...
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cricket
everything cricket
backlift, bail, batsman, batsmen, batswoman, batswomen, beamer, blockhole, bodyline, bosie, bouncer, boundary and 471 more...
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Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
snit, hobo, minx, kiln, loll, pelf, yegg, ugly, bumf, brio, biro, haha and 92 more...
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i don't like cricket, i love it
Words without which cricket could not be.
keeper, stumper, bad light stopped..., wicket keeper, rain stopped play, sight screen, bodyline, leg bye, duck, duckworth-lewis, t20, one-day game and 245 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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1
horizon, echo, undulation, resonance, reflection, acoustic, swoosh, distant, glide, interspace, marbles, radiant and 144 more...
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead
"Wow, we really have run out of names."
Codenames of superheroes, supervillains, etc. (that are actual words, or unique spellings of actual words).rogue, gambit, wolverine, storm, cyclops, phoenix, cypher, beast, berzerker, toad, avalanche, magma and 125 more...
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The List Of Words That Rewrote The Hi...
Ah, yeah, this is a list of words that I think sound pretty funny... or dumb, either way, I like 'em so, yeah.
flabergasted, smash, wang, wordie, drum, rumplestiltskin, resistance, watt, hindu, universal serial bus, bearing, nematode and 138 more...
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Spod's Words
corpulent, squidge, squiffy, sinuosity, ebullient, finger, penetrate, stimulate, recalcitrant, recidivist, dunnock, rococo and 152 more...
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