glob

/glɑb/

/glɒb/

Other forms: globs

A glob is a shapeless clump or hunk of something. Even the most skilled potter starts out with nothing but a glob of damp clay on her pottery wheel.

Globs are soft, squishy, or partly liquid substances — you can't really have a glob of pizza, but you can add a glob of melty mozzarella to the top of a pizza. An artist drops globs of oil paint on her palette, and a chocolate maker fills molds with globs of warm melted chocolate. While we know glob first appeared in print around 1900, its origin isn't clear. It may have imitated words like blob and gob.

Definitions of glob

1. noun

   a compact mass
   synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, clump, lump

   types:

   clot, coagulum

   a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid

   gob

   a lump of slimy stuff

   clew

   a ball of yarn or cord or thread

   thrombus

   a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin

   embolus

   an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood

   type of:

   agglomeration

   a jumbled collection or mass