blob
A shapeless or amorphous massA 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.
» The first pancake is always a blob.
Первый блин всегда комом.
Перший млинець завжди нанівець.
Перший млинець завжди глевкий.
Meaning
8 sensesA 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.
Klumpen, Klecks, Klümpchen
комkom
A large cloud of gas.
(dialectal)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.
(slang)A score of zero.
Physarum polycephalum, a bright yellow acellular slime mold known for solving puzzles, making decisions, etc. without a nervous system.
An extremely morbidly obese person, to the point of most of their body being composed of fat and nothing else.
- an indistinct shapeless form
Examples
4 sentencesThe first pancake is always a blob.
Перший млинець завжди нанівець.
ruПервый блин всегда комом.
Evolve or become a blob of cancer.
Wait a minute. Did you call me "blob"?
ruПогоди-ка, ты меня жирдяем назвал?
Under a microscope, coronaviruses look like round blobs surrounded by spikes, much like the corona, or crown, surrounding the sun.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English *blob (“attested in blobby”). Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to blebFrom Middle English *blob (“attested in blobby”). Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to bleb and blubber.
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