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

The white blob toward the left is actually the planet's south pole, depicting a high-resolution view of the water-ice-rich area in this region on Mars. —Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 20 May 2026

Everyone thinks fat stores are just these passive blobs of tissue that hang off your body. —Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026

Each pellet is essentially a uranium, carbon and oxygen blob imprisoned within an ultraresilient carbon and ceramic shell. —Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 19 May 2026

Slices of cold roast beef, beautiful and rare, come attended by a snowy blob of properly sinus-clearing horseradish cream, with a pickled black walnut on top like the cherry on a sundae and a crumbly wedge of cheddar. —Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 17 May 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