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blot
English
Etymology
From Middle English blot (“blot, spot, stain, blemish”). Perhaps from Old Norse *blettr (“blot, stain”) (only attested in documents from after Old Norse transitioned to Icelandic blettur), or from Old French bloche (“clod of earth”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bl?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
- (General American) IPA(key): /bl?t/
Noun
blot (plural blots)
- A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, An Excellent New Song
- I withdrew my subscription by help of a blot, / And so might discover or gain by the plot:
- 1918, Siegfried Sassoon, “The Death-Bed” in The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, p. 95,[1]
- […] He was blind; he could not see the stars
- Glinting among the wraiths of wandering cloud;
- Queer blots of colour, purple, scarlet, green,
- Flickered and faded in his drowning eyes.
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, An Excellent New Song
- (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
- (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
- (backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
blot (third-person singular simple present blots, present participle blotting, simple past and past participle blotted)
- (transitive) to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
- (intransitive) to soak up or absorb liquid.
- This paper blots easily.
- (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
- (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
- 1566, George Gascoigne, Dan Bartholmew of Bath
- The briefe was writte and blotted all with gore, […]
- 1566, George Gascoigne, Dan Bartholmew of Bath
- (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
- (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
- 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert
- Blot not thy Innocence with guiltle?s Blood.
- 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert
- (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
- to blot out a word or a sentence
- (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
- 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis
- He ?ung how Earth blots the Moons gilded Wane, […]
- 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Bolt, bolt
Danish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle Low German bl?t (“bare”), from Proto-Germanic *blautaz (“void, emaciated, soft”), cognate with German bloß (“bare”) and Danish blød (“soft”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?l?d?]
Adjective
blot (plural and definite singular attributive blotte)
- (dated) mere, very
Adverb
blot
- (slightly formal) only, merely
Synonyms
- kun, bare
Etymology 2
Borrowed Old Norse blót, from Proto-Germanic *bl?t?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?lo?d?]
Noun
blot
- a sacrifice (especially a blood sacrifice by heathens)
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?l?d?]
Verb
blot
- imperative of blotte
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?lo?d?]
Verb
blot
- imperative of blote
Low German
Etymology
From Middle Low German bl?t (“bare”), from Proto-Germanic *blautaz (“void, emaciated, soft”), cognate with German bloß (“bare”) and Danish blød (“soft”). Spelling variant of bloot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?blo??t]
Adverb
blot
- only, merely
Synonyms
- blots, man
References
- Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, ?ISBN, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)
Luxembourgish
Adjective
blot
- neuter nominative of blo
- neuter accusative of blo
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *bl?t?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blo?t/
Noun
bl?t n
- a sacrifice, especially a blood sacrifice by heathens
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splodge
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?spl?d?/
- Rhymes: -?d?
Noun
splodge (plural splodges)
- (informal) An irregular-shaped splash, smear, or patch.
- 2007, Anne Mustoe, Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver: By Bicycle and Train Through South America, Virgin Books (2007), ?ISBN, page 155:
- It was a strip of absolute desert, where the only vegetation was the occasional splodge of moss, which lay over the sand edging of the salt flats like livid green cowpats.
- 2011, Kenneth Rhienhart, It Wasn't Me, AuthorHouse (2011), ?ISBN, page 293:
- The consequence was that the stupid girl now had ended up with a bright blue ink splodge on her white “see through” blouse […]
- 2012, Gabrielle Walker, Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2013), ?ISBN, page 146:
- The 'rainbows' we had seen in the cockpit were two bright round splodges of light called sun dogs, one either side of the sun, joined together by a golden ring of light.
- 2007, Anne Mustoe, Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver: By Bicycle and Train Through South America, Virgin Books (2007), ?ISBN, page 155:
Synonyms
- splotch
Verb
splodge (third-person singular simple present splodges, present participle splodging, simple past and past participle splodged)
- (informal) To make a splodge; to render as a splodge.
Synonyms
- splotch
Anagrams
- plodges
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