glob
/ɡlɒb
/noun informal
A lump of a semi-liquid substance: thick globs of mozzarella cheese...
- Strapping it around his waist, he took two globs of slimy substance and pasted them onto the doors.
- The gold can occur in fractures, seams, masses, or small globs.
- Each bit has a home, like paint spread thickly across a canvas instead of in globs dropped here and there.
Origin
Early 20th century: perhaps a blend of blob and gob1.