Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large lump or portion of a solid matter: a dollop of ice cream.
- n. A small quantity or splash of a liquid: a dollop of whiskey.
- n. A modicum; a bit: not a dollop of truth to the story.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A lump; a mass.
- n. See dallop.
- To beat.
- To handle awkwardly.
Wiktionary
- n. a lump, scoop or considerable quantity of something.
- v. transitive To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops.
- v. intransitive To drip in a viscous form
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small measure (usually of food)
Etymologies
- Earlier tuft, clump; perhaps akin to Norwegian dolp, lump. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I had no idea they would be quite as spicy as they are and I am quite thankful the sourcream dollop is included in the recipe.”
“I've had conversations with people who didn't speak a dollop of English simply by trading the names of films or directors back and forth, with each of us grunting in disapproval or smiling our appreciation to show our opinion.”
“In recounting his teenage travails as a Boston schoolboy growing up with a "dollop" of Catholic guilt and a full spectrum of FM stations, Sheffield navigates Reaganomics, Boy George, and Rambo with wit, self-deprecation, and not an ounce of trepidation.”
“That blueberry 'dollop' looks disturbingly like oversized caviar.”
“There was the old farmer at the tithe dinner, who, on having some bread-sauce handed to him, extracted a great "dollop" on the top of his knife, tasted it, and said, "Don't chuse none.”
“Unlike with ill-advised conversations-where you can later swear that you said "dollop," not "trollop" and this was a simple misunderstanding based on excessive cerumen build-up-everything is spelled out in black-and-white in e-mail messages.”
“But they went on the menu that night, topped with a dollop of creamy raspberry purée.”
“Toting a bowl of her homemade guacamole, she spooned a dollop for Ben and asked him what it needed.”
“Ben sat perched on the edge of the tub with a dollop of Keri lotion in one hand, his small, hairless penis in his other, and a Playboy centerfold splayed on the floor between his blue-jeans-draped ankles when Coach blew through the bathroom door that Ben had triple-checked was locked.”
“For a large dog (bird dog) they squeeze out a dollop about the size of two english peas or peanuts.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dollop’.
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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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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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onomatopoeias (2 syllable)
2 syllable words that mean what they sound like. (dictionaried or un-dictionaried | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (1 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)
( op...wobble, sputter, spatter, flutter, giggle, hiccup, mumble, murmur, jangle, rattle, sizzle, rustle and 21 more...
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My favorite sounds
My favorite words to say.
ubiquitous, nightingale, silhouette, crevice, gloom, acquiesce, maniacal, plethora, serendipitous, oceanic, dollop
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refriedswanforge's list
codswallop, dollop, ticker, shawarmageddon, shibboleth, zeitgeist, scrod, tomfoolery, idiom, rollock, rollicking, roger and 2 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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amagnano's Words
truculent, churlish, antipathy, sociopathy, loquacious, disheveled, pouilly-fuisse, enamored, marked, assuage, ascetic, pagan and 190 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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Perfect Words
Words that perfectly suit the images to which they're bound.
soap, oil, crease, gibberish, scrawl, reluctant, crust, dazzling, dollop, poop
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Sound or sequence
dulcimer, borborygmi, ecchymosis, scrivener, fustilugs, zarf, bawdyhouse, googleable, archfiend, gymkhana, cuckoopint, pilpul and 104 more...
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Novel Words
Concise words to sprinkle in my prose.
apropos, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, antinomy, sanguine, glyph, taciturn, aesthetic, truncate, coffee and 143 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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NakedFringe's Words
masticate, chamber, orchid, mandolin, yellow, pomegranate, conundrum, paradox, gyrate, calamitous, opalescent, cacophony and 533 more...
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beautiful words
quench, metropolitan, dollop, cucumber, aesthetic, superfluous, gastronomy, nymph, obsequious, serendipity, champagne, gossamer and 125 more...
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
clandestine, dysphoric, indictive, vigil, fractious, assiduous, indefatigable, ubiquitous, insidious, paroicous, aplomb, sangfroid and 654 more...
Tweets
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bilby Ha, oro was right. I entered dollop in the flip your fonts thing and the text it returned is: dollop! Jul 31, 2008
reesetee Aaagh! The most wretched earworm ever! Jul 31, 2008
bestiary what was that infernal jingle?
..hmf-d-hm-hmmn wiith a dollop!--a dollop
you can light up a room with a dollop!
a dollop.. of dais-y Jul 31, 2008
oroboros An upside-down word. May 22, 2008