glob

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  1. noun A small drop; a globule.
  2. noun A soft thick lump or mass: a glob of mashed potatoes; globs of red mud.

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  • The deadly glob was detouring, sliding away from the cave. —  Harpy Thyme
  • A fiddler crab scurried slowly across the sand toward the glob, presumably the first of many scavengers to start pecking at it. —  Asimov'sSF,June2008
  • He touched one wet glob, and brought it to his nose. —  Challenging Destiny #18
  • Some sort of thick glob was all over his right shoe. —  Spider-Man2
  • Beneath his feet, the rock was maroon and warm and rumpled, like a glob of blood pudding. —  J
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  1. Middle English globbe, large mass, from Latin globus, globular mass.
 

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