blob

1 of 2

noun

ˈbläb 

1

a

: a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick

b

: a daub or spot of color

2

: something shapeless

blob

2 of 2

verb

blobbed; blobbing

transitive verb

: to mark with blobs : splotch

Synonyms of blob

Noun

• chunk
• clump
• glob
• hunk
• wad
• lump

Examples of blob in a Sentence

Noun

That blue blob in the corner of the map is the lake we're headed for.

flicked a blob of jelly on the toast and began to spread it around

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Milky, creamy blobs of mozzarella are melted over the top with plenty of torn basil. — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026

The other claims that early Earth was too hot for rigid plates, and that crust instead formed above mantle plumes rising from deep within the planet, a phenomenon comparable, Johnson said, to the wax blobs rising inside a lava lamp. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 5 July 2026

The reanalysis found that the heat loss from the ocean surface has actually decreased since 1955, cutting against the theory that the cold blob formed from atmospheric phenomena. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 1 July 2026

The mountain cams showed a blob of headlamp light near the summit at midnight, above the last rocky section on the Stüdlgrat. — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

Word History

Etymology

Noun

earlier, "bubble, pustule, pimple," of sound-symbolic origin

Note: Earliest evidence for the sense "small drop" is Scots ("blob off blude" in Andrew of Wyntoun's chronicle). Though some uses are ambiguous, this meaning does not appear again with certainty until the eighteenth century.

Verb

early Scots, derivative of blob blob entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

1725, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for blob

• bob
• cob
• daub
• fob
• glob
• gob
• hob
• job
• knob
• lob
• mob
• rob

Kids Definition

blob

noun

ˈbläb

: a small lump of something thick and wet