blobn.¹

Brit.

/blɒb/, U.S.

/blɑb/

Forms: Also 1800s Scottish blab.

Etymology: The verb appears in 15th, the noun in 16th cent. Like bleb n., expressing the action of the lips in producing a bubble. Some feeling of association with blow v.¹ may have helped the formation or perpetuation of the word. Compare blab n.², blobber adj., blubber n.¹

1. A bubble. Obsolete exc. northern dialect.

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the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] > a) bubble(s)

scuma1250

boilounc1320

bubblea1350

burblec1350

blubberc1440

bell1483

blobc1540

bull1561

bleb1647

blab1656

air bubble1756

air-bell1806

gas bubble1809

sprot1846

mousse1863

c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Cij^v Gyf thay be handillit, thay melt away like ane blob of watter.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ni^v/1 Blob on y^e water, bulla.

1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. Watter-blobs, bubbles of soap and water made with a pipe by children.

1875 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Bleb or Blob, a bubble.

2. A pimple, pustule. northern dialect. Also figurative.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun] > spot of > pimple

pimplea1398

plouk?c1425

whealc1440

knoll1499

red spota1500

knop1558

blob1597

bumb1598

pumple1601

burl1607

pimple spot1658

tiler1660

pipjenny1670

papula1694

grub1731

papilla1793

papule1828

maculopapule1900

hickey1934

zit1965

1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 82 Little blobs upon the skin, produced of an ebulition of the bloud.

1613 H. Austin tr. Ovid Scourge of Venus sig. C2 Õ filthy blob and staine.

a. A drop or globule of liquid or viscid substance. Also figurative.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > drop of soft and moist substance

gobbon1550

gob1558

blob1725

dab1749

slobber1857

glob1900

slob1928

the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > a quantity of > small > globular

dropc825

tearOE

pearlc1425

dripc1440

bead1598

dropleta1616

blob1725

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. ii Her een the clearest blob o' dew outshines.

1823 J. Galt Entail I. xxiii. 201 Haud it [sc. a bee] till I take out the honey blob.

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. iii. 70 The letter was..stuck down with a blob of ink.

1866 Duke of Argyll Reign of Law ii. 120 Animals which are mere blobs of jelly.

1905 W. A. Raleigh Lett. (1926) II. 286 Christianity caught on by its very rumness; all the loose floating blobs of superstition ran to it.

b. Applied to a soft round fruit, as a gooseberry; also dialect to globular or drop-like flowers, as the Globe-flower, Foxglove, etc.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun]

cropa700

berryc1000

grainc1315

blobc1750

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > gooseberry

gooseberry?1533

groser1548

St John's berry1561

dewberry1578

thorn-grape1578

feaberry1597

pearl gooseberry1688

wineberry1703

dayberry1736

honey-blob1746

blobc1750

groset1786

goosegog1823

Worcesterberry1923

golden berry1930

c1750 Ld. Balmerino in Ramsay Remin. (ed. 18) 254 Gie me a ha'porth of honey blobs [yellow gooseberries].

1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice xlix. 275 The scarlet blobs [= cherries] that they..loved.

c. Someone of no account, a ‘cipher’ or fool. colloquial and slang (chiefly Australian).

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant

unknownc1390

pawnc1450

semi-cipher?1550

bauble1570

Jack with the feather1581

nobody1583

winterling1585

squash1600

rush candle1628

niflec1635

nullity1657

nonentity1710

featherweight1812

underscrub1822

nyaff1825

small fish1836

no-account1840

little fish1846

peanut1864

commonplacer1874

sparrow-fart1886

Little Willie1901

pipsqueak1905

nebbish1907

pie-biter1911

blob1916

smallie1930

no-count1932

zilch1933

Mickey Mouse1935

muzhik1945

nerd1951

nothingburger1953

nerk1955

non-person1959

no-mark1982

1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee ii. 26 How do I know he loves me if he does not tell me so?.. There's half a dozen ‘blobs’ here who would do so if I gave them the chance.

1917 W. Owen Let. 2 Sept. (1967) 490 They had to mind their babies..unmannerly blobs of one to three years.

1920 B. Cronin Timber Wolves x. 185 Maybe they're all right, but it don't do to run risks. Tell some of them blobs they'll need to walk to Green Valley next time they get a thirst up, if they don't act reasonable.

1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger li. 472 Adrienne was no blob or woop-woop.

1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 130 Fools of one kind and another..Billy Muggins, blob, boofhead, [etc.].

1983 Listener 3 Feb. 19/3 If you could only see what a pathetic blob you look in your leotard and tights you'd never do another class.

a. A small rounded mass of colour.

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the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun]

spota1300

dropc1420

stud1751

gout1833

wafer1853

blob1863

pock1894

tache1957

1863 Reader 31 Oct. 502 In the design one of the wrestlers [is] destitute of eyebrows..but adorned with compensating blobs of hair upon the forehead.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton v. 54 A little blob of strong colour.

1880 G. C. M. Birdwood Indian Arts II. 9 Worthless gems which have no value as precious stones, but only as barbaric blobs of colour.

b. Cricket colloquial. A batter's score of no runs, so called from the zero placed against his name in the score-sheet; = duck's egg n. b. Hence figurative generally, ‘nought’; also, a senseless error, a blunder.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > running > no score by batsman

spectacles1835

egg1861

nought1862

pair1862

duck's egg1863

round O1863

duck1868

blob1889

balloon1906

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > serious error, blunder

blunder1706

blunderbuss1726

floor1841

bull1846

howler1872

atrocity1878

break1884

bloomer1889

boner1912

bish1937

black1939

blue1941

cock-up1946

piss-up1950

screw-up1950

blob1952

1889 Cricket 18 Apr. 60/2 St. Leonard's were all out for 25... Seven ‘blobs’ was the total.

1903 Punch 27 May 366 To come home and be treated as if I'd made a brace of blobs.

1912 J. B. Hobbs Recov. Ashes 19 Mr. Foster..taking the first wicket of the tour by bowling Mr. E. R. Mayne for a ‘blob’.

1952 M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke i. 17 Crooks can be..wanting in the top storey, but I've never heard of one who'd make a blob like that.

1958 B. Hamilton Too Much of Water vi. 134 A cricketer..may make a string of blobs, and then hit a couple of hundreds.

1960 L. Cooper Accomplices ii. ii. 86 He'd been in trouble with us before and he knew that another blob would about finish him.

5. A solid oval mass of iron forming the base of one of the iron beams or posts which support the deck of a ship.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > deck or hold beams > plate or bulb strengthening

blob1863

bulb iron1869

tie-plate1874

web frame1883

1863 Times 19 Mar. 14/2 The tee, the beam, and the blob were made separately in lengths, and then welded together.

a. figurative. A pouting lower lip.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > lip or lips > lower > pouting

blob1762

moue1849

1762 E. Collins Misc. in Prose & Verse 122 Wit hung her Blob, ev'n Humour seem'd to mourn.

b. slang phr. on the blob: by word of mouth. Cf. blab n.¹

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the mind > language > speech > [adverb]

mouthlya1425

by word of mouthc1456

by tonguec1550

expressedlya1555

verbo1561

verbally1571

viva voce1581

ore tenusa1601

verbatima1616

orally1666

speakably1845

on the blob1851

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 311/2 Those [professional beggars] who ‘do it on the blob’ (by word of mouth), and those who do it by ‘screeving’, that is, by petitions and letters.

Compounds

blob-cheeked, blob-headed adjs.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [adjective] > types of cheek > having

blob-cheeked1552

bright-cheekeda1560

plum-cheeked1598

chub-faced1602

white-cheekedc1602

chuffy1611

lantern-jawed1699

lockram-jawed1699

blubber-cheeked1711

chub-cheeked1715

lank-jawed1778

apple-faced1781

chubby-faced1826

apple-cheeked1827

lank-cheeked1838

bag-cheeked1839

poke-cheeked1843

maiden-cheeked1866

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > types of head > [adjective] > having

headedOE

cop-headed1519

small-headedc1540

jolt-headed1552

chuff-headed1563

ass-headed1584

two-headed1596

golden-headed1598

hard-headed1601

big-headed1614

bicipitous1646

buffle-headed1654

female-headed1655

heavy-headed1684

bullet-headed1699

jolter-headed1748

pinheaded1771

pigheaded1774

thin-headed1804

roundhead1842

bulbous-headed1860

blob-headed1865

occipital1873

fat-headed1883

mesopic1885

peanut-headed1906

dome-headed1910

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Blobbe cheked, buccones.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 78 b A man with a bottell nose, blobb cheaked.

1865 Morning Star 8 May A blob-headed man with mauve-coloured hair.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

blobv.

Forms: Also 1500s blab.

Etymology: compare blob n.¹

Chiefly northern.

1. transitive. To mark with a blob of ink or colour; to blot or blur.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > stain

mealeOE

litc1230

beblotc1374

depaintc1374

entachc1374

stain1382

tache1390

wem1398

molec1400

blob1429

blotc1440

imbruec1450

maculate?a1475

thorough-stain1593

commaculatec1616

stigmatizea1637

tattoo1774

staddle1828

bestain1869

1429 Sc. Acts. Jas. I II. 17/2 Swa þat þai halde þe forme of the breif..& be nocht rasit na blobit in suspect place.

1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. H4 She will not haue one of those pearled starres, To blab her sable metamorphesie.

1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 114 Gif the libell or summons is blobbed, or rased in suspect places.

2. intransitive. To rise in a bubble or bubbles.

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the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > effervesce [verb (intransitive)]

burble1303

blubberc1400

bubblea1475

buller1535

seethe1535

bell1598

huff1707

wobble1725

effervesce1784

sotter1834

blob1855

upbubble1865

petillate1942

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 16 Blob, to boil or bubble up like water, when anything acts upon it by plunging or otherwise.

3. intransitive ? To produce blobs or bubbles; to ‘flop’ in the water.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > plunge > plunge in or under water or mud

launch13..

sousec1400

douse1603

plounce1654

delve1697

immerge1706

immerse1739

inswamp1775

plout1814

blob1875

1875 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Blob, to plunge into the water.

1884 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 346/1 The wretched trout..blobbing and jumping on the stream.

4. intransitive. To make a ‘blob’ (see blob n.¹ 4b); to score no runs. Cricket colloquial.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > fail to score

blob1905

1905 N. Gale More Cricket Songs 34 I've tasted Sweet and bitter supplied by Luck,..Whether I blobbed or whether I stuck.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	blob
释义	blobn.¹ Brit. /blɒb/, U.S. /blɑb/ Forms: Also 1800s Scottish blab. Etymology: The verb appears in 15th, the noun in 16th cent. Like bleb n., expressing the action of the lips in producing a bubble. Some feeling of association with blow v.¹ may have helped the formation or perpetuation of the word. Compare blab n.², blobber adj., blubber n.¹ 1. A bubble. Obsolete exc. northern dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] > a) bubble(s) scuma1250 boilounc1320 bubblea1350 burblec1350 blubberc1440 bell1483 blobc1540 bull1561 bleb1647 blab1656 air bubble1756 air-bell1806 gas bubble1809 sprot1846 mousse1863 c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Cij^v Gyf thay be handillit, thay melt away like ane blob of watter. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ni^v/1 Blob on y^e water, bulla. 1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. Watter-blobs, bubbles of soap and water made with a pipe by children. 1875 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Bleb or Blob, a bubble. 2. A pimple, pustule. northern dialect. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun] > spot of > pimple pimplea1398 plouk?c1425 whealc1440 knoll1499 red spota1500 knop1558 blob1597 bumb1598 pumple1601 burl1607 pimple spot1658 tiler1660 pipjenny1670 papula1694 grub1731 papilla1793 papule1828 maculopapule1900 hickey1934 zit1965 1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 82 Little blobs upon the skin, produced of an ebulition of the bloud. 1613 H. Austin tr. Ovid Scourge of Venus sig. C2 Õ filthy blob and staine. 3. a. A drop or globule of liquid or viscid substance. Also figurative. ΘΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > drop of soft and moist substance gobbon1550 gob1558 blob1725 dab1749 slobber1857 glob1900 slob1928 the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > a quantity of > small > globular dropc825 tearOE pearlc1425 dripc1440 bead1598 dropleta1616 blob1725 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. ii Her een the clearest blob o' dew outshines. 1823 J. Galt Entail I. xxiii. 201 Haud it [sc. a bee] till I take out the honey blob. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. iii. 70 The letter was..stuck down with a blob of ink. 1866 Duke of Argyll Reign of Law ii. 120 Animals which are mere blobs of jelly. 1905 W. A. Raleigh Lett. (1926) II. 286 Christianity caught on by its very rumness; all the loose floating blobs of superstition ran to it. b. Applied to a soft round fruit, as a gooseberry; also dialect to globular or drop-like flowers, as the Globe-flower, Foxglove, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] cropa700 berryc1000 grainc1315 blobc1750 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > gooseberry gooseberry?1533 groser1548 St John's berry1561 dewberry1578 thorn-grape1578 feaberry1597 pearl gooseberry1688 wineberry1703 dayberry1736 honey-blob1746 blobc1750 groset1786 goosegog1823 Worcesterberry1923 golden berry1930 c1750 Ld. Balmerino in Ramsay Remin. (ed. 18) 254 Gie me a ha'porth of honey blobs [yellow gooseberries]. 1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice xlix. 275 The scarlet blobs [= cherries] that they..loved. c. Someone of no account, a ‘cipher’ or fool. colloquial and slang (chiefly Australian). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant unknownc1390 pawnc1450 semi-cipher?1550 bauble1570 Jack with the feather1581 nobody1583 winterling1585 squash1600 rush candle1628 niflec1635 nullity1657 nonentity1710 featherweight1812 underscrub1822 nyaff1825 small fish1836 no-account1840 little fish1846 peanut1864 commonplacer1874 sparrow-fart1886 Little Willie1901 pipsqueak1905 nebbish1907 pie-biter1911 blob1916 smallie1930 no-count1932 zilch1933 Mickey Mouse1935 muzhik1945 nerd1951 nothingburger1953 nerk1955 non-person1959 no-mark1982 1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee ii. 26 How do I know he loves me if he does not tell me so?.. There's half a dozen ‘blobs’ here who would do so if I gave them the chance. 1917 W. Owen Let. 2 Sept. (1967) 490 They had to mind their babies..unmannerly blobs of one to three years. 1920 B. Cronin Timber Wolves x. 185 Maybe they're all right, but it don't do to run risks. Tell some of them blobs they'll need to walk to Green Valley next time they get a thirst up, if they don't act reasonable. 1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger li. 472 Adrienne was no blob or woop-woop. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 130 Fools of one kind and another..Billy Muggins, blob, boofhead, [etc.]. 1983 Listener 3 Feb. 19/3 If you could only see what a pathetic blob you look in your leotard and tights you'd never do another class. 4. a. A small rounded mass of colour. ΘΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] spota1300 dropc1420 stud1751 gout1833 wafer1853 blob1863 pock1894 tache1957 1863 Reader 31 Oct. 502 In the design one of the wrestlers [is] destitute of eyebrows..but adorned with compensating blobs of hair upon the forehead. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton v. 54 A little blob of strong colour. 1880 G. C. M. Birdwood Indian Arts II. 9 Worthless gems which have no value as precious stones, but only as barbaric blobs of colour. b. Cricket colloquial. A batter's score of no runs, so called from the zero placed against his name in the score-sheet; = duck's egg n. b. Hence figurative generally, ‘nought’; also, a senseless error, a blunder. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > running > no score by batsman spectacles1835 egg1861 nought1862 pair1862 duck's egg1863 round O1863 duck1868 blob1889 balloon1906 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > serious error, blunder blunder1706 blunderbuss1726 floor1841 bull1846 howler1872 atrocity1878 break1884 bloomer1889 boner1912 bish1937 black1939 blue1941 cock-up1946 piss-up1950 screw-up1950 blob1952 1889 Cricket 18 Apr. 60/2 St. Leonard's were all out for 25... Seven ‘blobs’ was the total. 1903 Punch 27 May 366 To come home and be treated as if I'd made a brace of blobs. 1912 J. B. Hobbs Recov. Ashes 19 Mr. Foster..taking the first wicket of the tour by bowling Mr. E. R. Mayne for a ‘blob’. 1952 M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke i. 17 Crooks can be..wanting in the top storey, but I've never heard of one who'd make a blob like that. 1958 B. Hamilton Too Much of Water vi. 134 A cricketer..may make a string of blobs, and then hit a couple of hundreds. 1960 L. Cooper Accomplices ii. ii. 86 He'd been in trouble with us before and he knew that another blob would about finish him. 5. A solid oval mass of iron forming the base of one of the iron beams or posts which support the deck of a ship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > deck or hold beams > plate or bulb strengthening blob1863 bulb iron1869 tie-plate1874 web frame1883 1863 Times 19 Mar. 14/2 The tee, the beam, and the blob were made separately in lengths, and then welded together. 6. a. figurative. A pouting lower lip. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] > lip or lips > lower > pouting blob1762 moue1849 1762 E. Collins Misc. in Prose & Verse 122 Wit hung her Blob, ev'n Humour seem'd to mourn. b. slang phr. on the blob: by word of mouth. Cf. blab n.¹ ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [adverb] mouthlya1425 by word of mouthc1456 by tonguec1550 expressedlya1555 verbo1561 verbally1571 viva voce1581 ore tenusa1601 verbatima1616 orally1666 speakably1845 on the blob1851 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 311/2 Those [professional beggars] who ‘do it on the blob’ (by word of mouth), and those who do it by ‘screeving’, that is, by petitions and letters. Compounds blob-cheeked, blob-headed adjs. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [adjective] > types of cheek > having blob-cheeked1552 bright-cheekeda1560 plum-cheeked1598 chub-faced1602 white-cheekedc1602 chuffy1611 lantern-jawed1699 lockram-jawed1699 blubber-cheeked1711 chub-cheeked1715 lank-jawed1778 apple-faced1781 chubby-faced1826 apple-cheeked1827 lank-cheeked1838 bag-cheeked1839 poke-cheeked1843 maiden-cheeked1866 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > types of head > [adjective] > having headedOE cop-headed1519 small-headedc1540 jolt-headed1552 chuff-headed1563 ass-headed1584 two-headed1596 golden-headed1598 hard-headed1601 big-headed1614 bicipitous1646 buffle-headed1654 female-headed1655 heavy-headed1684 bullet-headed1699 jolter-headed1748 pinheaded1771 pigheaded1774 thin-headed1804 roundhead1842 bulbous-headed1860 blob-headed1865 occipital1873 fat-headed1883 mesopic1885 peanut-headed1906 dome-headed1910 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Blobbe cheked, buccones. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 78 b A man with a bottell nose, blobb cheaked. 1865 Morning Star 8 May A blob-headed man with mauve-coloured hair. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). blobn.² Forms: 1800s blobb, 1800s–1900s blob. Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: bob n.¹ Etymology: Apparently a variant or alteration of bob n.¹ (compare bob n.¹ 7), perhaps by association with blob n.¹ local. A bait used in fishing for eels, consisting of a worm strung on a worsted thread. (Cf. bob n.¹ 7.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > bait for eels bob1648 blob1874 eel-bob1883 1874 E. Peacock John Markenfield vii Along o' my runnin' away wi' her crewell ball, and makin' a blobb for eels wi' it. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 28 Apr. 3/1 Your plan is now, when the eel is thus grabbing the worm, to lift the ‘blob’ very gently. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). blobv. Forms: Also 1500s blab. Etymology: compare blob n.¹ Chiefly northern. 1. transitive. To mark with a blob of ink or colour; to blot or blur. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > stain mealeOE litc1230 beblotc1374 depaintc1374 entachc1374 stain1382 tache1390 wem1398 molec1400 blob1429 blotc1440 imbruec1450 maculate?a1475 thorough-stain1593 commaculatec1616 stigmatizea1637 tattoo1774 staddle1828 bestain1869 1429 Sc. Acts. Jas. I II. 17/2 Swa þat þai halde þe forme of the breif..& be nocht rasit na blobit in suspect place. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. H4 She will not haue one of those pearled starres, To blab her sable metamorphesie. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 114 Gif the libell or summons is blobbed, or rased in suspect places. 2. intransitive. To rise in a bubble or bubbles. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > effervesce [verb (intransitive)] burble1303 blubberc1400 bubblea1475 buller1535 seethe1535 bell1598 huff1707 wobble1725 effervesce1784 sotter1834 blob1855 upbubble1865 petillate1942 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 16 Blob, to boil or bubble up like water, when anything acts upon it by plunging or otherwise. 3. intransitive ? To produce blobs or bubbles; to ‘flop’ in the water. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > plunge > plunge in or under water or mud launch13.. sousec1400 douse1603 plounce1654 delve1697 immerge1706 immerse1739 inswamp1775 plout1814 blob1875 1875 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Blob, to plunge into the water. 1884 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 346/1 The wretched trout..blobbing and jumping on the stream. 4. intransitive. To make a ‘blob’ (see blob n.¹ 4b); to score no runs. Cricket colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > fail to score blob1905 1905 N. Gale More Cricket Songs 34 I've tasted Sweet and bitter supplied by Luck,..Whether I blobbed or whether I stuck. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.¹c1540n.²1874v.1429
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