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Word:
blob
Meaning:
“Klodder” is a proper noun meaning “lump”. It is usually of a mushy, semi-liquid or jelly-like substance, such as thick paint or congealed blood, or sometimes of a hard or hardened substance in such an amorphous form:
- These so-called artists… take a piece of linen,… blindly smear a few blobs of paint on it and then sign the whole thing with their name(in FGE and M. Nilant, ed.: Kuns, 1958, 391).
- Here and there a… blobpaint (on the painting) still processed into a leaf or a bird (, 25 Oct. 1965, 2).
- Everywhere the oil drips and falls in thick, black blobs from his body(Malherbe: Life Calls, 1939, 95).
- Black blobs… of the juiciness in which he… stepped(Ferreira, trans.: Miere, 1968, 233).
- Gobs (gold)or nuggets of 119, 123 and 215 ounces in 1875 (at Pilgrim’s Rest) discover (S. Preller: Gold Roman, 1935, 84).
- The man tells me precisely that he at Pilgrimsrust a blob(gold) of 215 oz (Britz: Gold Rush, 1945, 26).
The word can also be used figuratively: Die blob cloud lies against the willow / Soft and silky like powdered sugar (I. Rousseau: Taxa, 1970, 35).
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