glob

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a compact, rounded, and usually shapeless lump of a soft or sticky substance

   A glob of wet clay dropped from the sculptor's hand onto the floor.

2. 2
   verb

   to form, stick, or apply in thick shapeless lumps

   The old paint globbed around the rim of the open can.

Probably a blend of blob and gob or a shortening of globule. Its cluster of related words for rounded lumps, including glop, blob, and clump, also suggests sound symbolism.

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