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▪ I. blob, n.1|blɒb|
Also 9 Sc. blab.
[The vb. appears in 15th, the n. in 16th c. Like bleb, expressing the action of the lips in producing a bubble. Some feeling of association with blow may have helped the formation or perpetuation of the word. Cf. blab, blobber, blubber.]
1. A bubble. Obs. exc. north. dial.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. xliii, Gif thay be handillit, thay melt away like ane blob of watter. 1570Levins Manip. 154 Blob on the water, bulla. 1863Mrs. Toogood Yorksh. Dial., Watter-blobs, bubbles of soap and water made with a pipe by children. 1875Whitby Gloss. (E.D.S.) Bleb or Blob, a bubble.
2. A pimple, pustule. north. dial. Also fig.
1597Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 82 Little blobs upon the skin, produced of an ebulition of the bloud. 1614Sco. Venus (1876) 32 O filthy blob and staine.
3. a. A drop or globule of liquid or viscid substance. Also fig.
1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. ii, Her een the clearest blob o' dew outshines. 1823Galt Entail I. xxiii. 201 Haud it [a humble bee] till I take out the honey blob. 1857Hughes Tom Brown iii, The letter was..stuck down with a blob of ink. 1866Argyll Reign of Law ii. (ed. 4) 120 Animals which are mere blobs of jelly. 1905W. Raleigh Lett. (1926) II. 286 Christianity caught on by its very rumness; all the loose floating blobs of superstition ran to it.
b. Applied to a soft round fruit, as a gooseberry; also dial. to globular or drop-like flowers, as the Globe-flower, Foxglove, etc.
c1750Ld. Balmerino in Ramsay Remin. (ed. 18) 254 Gie me a ha'porth of honey blobs [yellow gooseberries]. 1868Holme Lee B. Godfrey xlix. 275 The scarlet blobs [= cherries] that they..loved.
c. Someone of no account, a ‘cipher’ or fool. colloq. and slang (chiefly Austral.).
1916J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee ii. 26 How do I know he loves me if he does not tell me so?.. There's half a dozen ‘blobs’ here who would do so if I gave them the chance. 1917W. Owen Let. 2 Sept. (1967) 490 They had to mind their babies..unmannerly blobs of one to three years. 1920B. Cronin Timber Wolves x. 185 Maybe they're all right, but it don't do to run risks. Tell some of them blobs they'll need to walk to Green Valley next time they get a thirst up, if they don't act reasonable. 1936M. Franklin All that Swagger li. 472 Adrienne was no blob or woop-woop. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 130 Fools of one kind and another..Billy Muggins, blob, boofhead, [etc.]. 1983Listener 3 Feb. 19/3 If you could only see what a pathetic blob you look in your leotard and tights you'd never do another class.
4. a. A small rounded mass of colour.
1863Reader 31 Oct. 502 In the design one of the wrestlers [is] destitute of eyebrows..but adorned with compensating blobs of hair upon the forehead. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton v. 54 A little blob of strong colour. 1880G. C. M. Birdwood Ind. Art II. 9 Worthless gems which have no value as precious stones, but only as barbaric blobs of colour.
b. Cricket colloq. A batsman's score of no runs, so called from the zero placed against his name in the score-sheet; = duck's egg b. Hence fig. generally, ‘nought’; also, a senseless error, a blunder.
1889Cricket 18 Apr. 60/2 St. Leonard's were all out for 25... Seven ‘blobs’ was the total. 1903Punch 27 May 366 To come home and be treated as if I'd made a brace of blobs. 1912J. B. Hobbs Recov. Ashes 19 Mr. Foster..taking the first wicket of the tour by bowling Mr. E. R. Mayne for a ‘blob’. 1952M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke i. 17 Crooks can be..wanting in the top storey, but I've never heard of one who'd make a blob like that. 1958B. Hamilton Too Much of Water vi. 134 A cricketer..may make a string of blobs, and then hit a couple of hundreds. 1960L. Cooper Accomplices ii. ii. 86 He'd been in trouble with us before and he knew that another blob would about finish him.
5. A solid oval mass of iron forming the base of one of the iron beams or posts which support the deck of a ship.
1863Times 19 Mar. 14/2 The tee, the beam, and the blob were made separately in lengths, and then welded together.
6. a. fig. A pouting lower lip.
1762Collins Misc. 122 (Halliw.) Wit hung her blob, ev'n Humour seem'd to mourn.
b. slang phr. on the blob: by word of mouth. Cf. blab.
1851Mayhew Lond. Lab. I. 311 Those [professional beggars] who ‘do it on the blob’ (by word of mouth) and those who do it by ‘screwing’, that is, by petitions and letters.
7. Comb., as blob-cheeked, blob-headed adjs.
1552Huloet, Blobbe cheked, buccones. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 78 b, A man with a bottell nose, blobb cheaked. 1865Morn. Star 8 May, A blob-headed man with mauve-coloured hair.
▪ II. blob, n.2 local.
A bait used in fishing for eels, consisting of a worm strung on a worsted thread. (Cf. bob n.1 7.)
1874E. Peacock J. Markenfield vii, Along o' my runnin' away wi' her crewell ball, and makin' a blobb for eels wi' it. 1905Westm. Gaz. 28 Apr. 3/1 Your plan is now, when the eel is thus grabbing the worm, to lift the ‘blob’ very gently.
▪ III. blob, v. Chiefly north.
Also 6 blab.
[cf. blob n.1]
1. trans. To mark with a blob of ink or colour; to blot or blur.
1429Sc. Acts. Jas. I, II. 17/2 Swa þat þai halde þe forme of the breif..& be nocht rasit na blobit in suspect place. 1599Porter Angry Wom. Abingd. (1841) 91 She will not haue one of those pearled starres To blab her sable metamorphosis. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 114 Gif the libell or summons is blobbed, or rased in suspect places.
2. intr. To rise in a bubble or bubbles.
1855Whitby Gloss., Blob, to boil or bubble up like water, when anything acts upon it by plunging or otherwise.
3. intr. ? To produce blobs or bubbles; to ‘flop’ in the water.
1875Whitby Gloss. (E.D.S.) Blob, to plunge into the water. 1884Blackw. Mag. Mar. 346/1 The wretched trout..blobbing and jumping on the stream.
4. intr. To make a ‘blob’ (see blob n.1 4 b); to score no runs. Cricket colloq.
1905N. Gale More Cricket Songs 34 I've tasted Sweet and bitter supplied by Luck,..Whether I blobbed or whether I stuck. |