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blob
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /bl?b/
- Rhymes: -?b
- (US) IPA(key): /bl?b/
- Homophone: BLOB
Etymology 1
Possibly formed through mimesis, similarly to bleb and blubber.
Noun
blob (plural blobs)
- A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
- 1869: Norman Lockyer et al, Nature
- Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment.
- 1895: The Annual of the British School at Athens
- It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
- 1869: Norman Lockyer et al, Nature
- (astronomy) A large cloud of gas.
- Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob (a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy).
- (dialect) A bubble; a bleb.
- A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
- The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
- (sports, slang) A score of zero.
- 1925, Punch (volume 168, page 561)
- A gentleman named W. Shakespeare scored a blob in the Worcestershire v. Lancashire match. We understand that he got out because the ball pitched on a "damned spot."
- 1925, Punch (volume 168, page 561)
Derived terms
- bloblike
- blobby
Translations
See also
- cluster
Verb
blob (third-person singular simple present blobs, present participle blobbing, simple past and past participle blobbed)
- (transitive) To drop in the form of a blob or blobs
- 1957, "War of Nerves," Time, 7 October, 1957, [3]
- […] a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home.
- 1957, "War of Nerves," Time, 7 October, 1957, [3]
- (transitive) To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
- 1959, "The Big Appel," Time, 7 December, 1959, [5]
- Asked to do a mural in the coffee room of the Municipal Museum, Appel responded by blobbing all four walls and the ceiling with brilliant colors […]
- 1959, "The Big Appel," Time, 7 December, 1959, [5]
- (intransitive) To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
- 1964, A. S. Byatt, The Shadow of the Sun, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1991, Chapter Three, p. 47,
- Caroline began to separate eggs, cracking them into unbelievably even halves, sliding the gold, round and elastic, from shell to shell, whilst the white hung, heavy, translucent, in thick sheets, and blobbed suddenly into her basin.
- 2013, Marcus Berkmann, "Blood and gore of the real 'who dunnits'," Review of Silent Witnesses by Nigel McCrery, Daily Mail, 22 August, 2013, [6]
- […] whether the blood has splashed, or blobbed, or trickled, can reveal whether the victim was killed here or moved afterwards.
- 1964, A. S. Byatt, The Shadow of the Sun, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1991, Chapter Three, p. 47,
- (intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
blob (plural blobs)
- Alternative spelling of BLOB
References
Anagrams
- Lobb
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swatch
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sw?t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sw?t?/, /sw?t?/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Etymology 1
From earlier Northern England dialectal swache (“the counterfoil or counterstock of a tally”) (1512); further etymology unknown. Cognate with Scots swach, swatch. Compare English swath, swathe. Compare also Old English swæcc (“taste; flavour; odour; fragrance”).
Noun
swatch (plural swatches)
- A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.
- A selection of such samples bound together.
- (figuratively) A clump or portion of something.
- (figuratively) A demonstration, an example, a proof.
- (Northern England, obsolete) A tag or other small object attached to another item as a means of identifying its owner; a tally; specifically the counterfoil of a tally.
- c. 1512, “The Booke of All the Directions and Orders for Kepynge of My Lordes Hous Yerely. X. ITEM The Articles Howe the Clerks of the Kechinge and Clerks of the Brevements Shall Order Them aswell Conssernynge the Brevements as for Seynge to the Officers in their Officis to be Kept Daylye Weikely Monthely Quarterly Halff-Yerely and Yerely”, in The Regulations and Establishment of the Houshold of Henry Algernon Percy, the Fifth Earl of Northumberland, at His Castles of Wresill and Lekinfield in Yorkshire. Begun Anno Domini M.D. XII, London: [s.n.], published 1770, ?OCLC; republished in Francis Grose, Thomas Astle, and other eminent antiquaries, compilers, The Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellaneous Assemblage of Topography, History, Biography, Customs, and Manners. Intended to Illustrate and Preserve Several Valuable Remains of Old Times. [...] In Four Volumes, volume IV, London: Printed for and published by Edward Jeffery, No. 11, Pall-Mall, 1809, ?OCLC, page 73:
- ITEM that the said Clerkis of the Brevements entre all the Taillis of the Furniunturs in the Jornall Booke in the Countynghous every day furthwith after the Brede be delyveret to the Pantre and then the Stoke [i.e., main part] of the Taill to by delyveret to the Baker and the Swache to the Pantler. [...] ITEM that the said Clerkis of the Brevements entre all the Taills of the Brasyantors in the Jornall Booke in the Countynghous at every tyme furthwith after the Bere be delyveret into the Buttry and then the Stoke of the Taill to be delyveret to the Brewar and the Swatche to the Butler.
- c. 1512, “The Booke of All the Directions and Orders for Kepynge of My Lordes Hous Yerely. X. ITEM The Articles Howe the Clerks of the Kechinge and Clerks of the Brevements Shall Order Them aswell Conssernynge the Brevements as for Seynge to the Officers in their Officis to be Kept Daylye Weikely Monthely Quarterly Halff-Yerely and Yerely”, in The Regulations and Establishment of the Houshold of Henry Algernon Percy, the Fifth Earl of Northumberland, at His Castles of Wresill and Lekinfield in Yorkshire. Begun Anno Domini M.D. XII, London: [s.n.], published 1770, ?OCLC; republished in Francis Grose, Thomas Astle, and other eminent antiquaries, compilers, The Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellaneous Assemblage of Topography, History, Biography, Customs, and Manners. Intended to Illustrate and Preserve Several Valuable Remains of Old Times. [...] In Four Volumes, volume IV, London: Printed for and published by Edward Jeffery, No. 11, Pall-Mall, 1809, ?OCLC, page 73:
Translations
Verb
swatch (third-person singular simple present swatches, present participle swatching, simple past and past participle swatched)
- To create a swatch, especially a sample of knitted fabric.
Etymology 2
Origin unknown; originally used chiefly in the East of England.
Noun
swatch (plural swatches)
- (Britain) A channel or passage of water between sandbanks, or between a sandbank and a seashore.
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