Other forms: globs
A glob is a soft rounded lump of something thick. A glob of paint, a glob of glue, globs of cream.
It is informal and slightly unappealing, and it belongs to things that hold their shape badly. The sound does much of the work, as it does in blob, gob and glop, which is why the word needs no explaining.
1nounglobA soft rounded lump of something thick.
“A glob of toothpaste fell off the brush into the sink.”
glob is a lump.
Also accepted in games: dollop
Probably a blend of blob and gob, or a clipping of globule; the sound itself carries much of the sense.
Possibly a blob and gob, or a a clipping of globule. An element of sound symbolism is clearly involved: compare such phonetically and semantically similar words as glop, gop, lob, blob, lump, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European - root gel-; compare clew.) In the biological sense, proposed by Bevil R. Conway and Doris Y. Tsao, by analogy with the cytochrome-oxidase "blobs" of V1, an earlier stage in the hierarchical elaboration of colour.
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