glob

glob  (glb)

n.

1. A small drop; a globule.

2. A soft thick lump or mass: a glob of mashed potatoes; globs of red mud.

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[Middle English globbe, large mass, from Latin globus, globular mass.]

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glob

Noun

Informal a rounded mass of thick fluid [probably from globe, influenced by blob]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

glob - a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" chunk, clod, lump, clump, ball clot, coagulum - a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid agglomeration - a jumbled collection or mass gob - a lump of slimy stuff; "a gob of phlegm" clew - a ball of yarn or cord or thread