different between splodge vs splotch

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?spl?d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Noun

splodge (plural splodges)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• splotch

Verb

splodge (third-person singular simple present splodges, present participle splodging, simple past and past participle splodged)

1. (informal) To make a splodge; to render as a splodge.

Synonyms

• splotch

Anagrams

• plodges

English

Alternative forms

• sploach, splatch

Etymology

From a variation of splot (“a spot”) (compare blotch, from blot). More at splot.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

splotch (plural splotches)

1. An irregular-shaped spot or stain.

Synonyms

• splodge

Derived terms

• splotchy

Translations

References

• splotch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Verb

splotch (third-person singular simple present splotches, present participle splotching, simple past and past participle splotched)

1. To mark with splotches.