glob
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4.8
- noun
- /ɡlɑb/
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pegote
- There was a glob of peanut butter stuck to the spoon.
- big glob
- fat glob
- glob of jelly
You get these globs of oil floating in the water, OK.
- You get these globs of oil floating in the water, OK.
- Let's try this glob of mozzarella.
- I'm just so sick of the Internet just homogenizing into one glob.
- And so it's kind of a refining, honing process from like an amorphous glob of clay to a beautifully refined sculpture.
Examples
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Patrick nails Kat in the back with a big glob of red paint.
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Even with the wound sealed under an ugly glob of mediflesh, she was still quite beautiful lying there.
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Oh, as I go and I get a big glob of it on my skin.
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This whole glob here has mass M.
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So I like to do like a glob like that would be enough for four faces.
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OK, we got a nice glob that's actually really good.
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There's a glob of something on the... on the glass.
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You get these globs of oil floating in the water, OK.
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And so I'm just taking a giant glob of this, and this is the hydrogel.
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" She was dipping her French fry in a glob of ketchup on a paper napkin.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
275
1.0
A solid round mass of material, like yarn or clay
265
2.4
A fairly large piece of something, often food or solid material
77
2.0
A small solid piece of something without a regular shape
59
3.0
A thick sticky substance that is soft and wet
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3.5
A soft, shapeless lump of something like paint or jelly
10
7.5
A thick sticky substance that is often messy
7
4.6
A lump of earth or clay from the ground
6
9.9
A thick lump of sticky stuff like glue
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9.0
A sticky, shapeless lump of wet, unpleasant material
3
7.2
A small round drop of liquid
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2.8
A small rounded lump of paint that sits on a surface
A round object like a ball or glass ornament
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Etymology
Glob names a 'small, round lump' or blob of something thick and sticky. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a messy little globe — round but soft — so a glob of honey or paint is a sticky little ball.