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blobblob /blɒb $ blɑːb/ noun [countable] blobOrigin: 1700-1800 Probably from blob ‘bubble’ (16-19 centuries), perhaps from the sound made by the lips when producing a bubble - Blobs of wax had dripped from the candle onto the table cloth.
- Astronomers say the comet will look like a fuzzy blob in the southwestern sky.
- Put a blob of glue on each surface and carefully press together.
- Rita dropped a blob of paint on the new carpet.
- A big pink blob of a face was at the window, peering in at him.
- All I could see, as usual, with my untrained eye, were blobs and shadows.
- And then she picked up the map and stared at the blobs of green and yellow in the Aegean Sea.
- Some were no more than motionless translucent blobs.
- Then I saw a blob of something floating in the water.
- Thirty-two-year-old Mike Keneally managed to transform himself from a 28-stone blob into a 14-stone hunk.
an amount of liquid► drop a very small amount of liquid in a round shape, that falls from somewhere : drop of: · Big drops of rain slid down the window pane.· Add a few drops of vanilla essence, the egg white and half the butter.· She applied a few drops of perfume behind her ears and smiled at her reflection in the mirror. ► blob a drop or small amount of thick liquid: blob of paint/glue/wax/grease etc: · Rita dropped a blob of paint on the new carpet.· Blobs of wax had dripped from the candle onto the table cloth.· Put a blob of glue on each surface and carefully press together. ► pool an area of liquid lying on a surface: pool of: · Trautman was lying in a pool of blood.· A pool of oil had collected under the car. 1a very small round mass of a liquid or sticky substanceblob of a blob of honey2something that cannot be clearly seen, especially because it is far away: Without a telescope, the comet will look like a fuzzy blob. |