blodge

plural blodges

1. An uneven patch of color.

   A purple blodge, a yellow blodge, a green blodge, a brown blodge for God's sake. I hadn't noticed it before.

   2005, Laurence Fleming, On Torquemada's Sofa, page 51

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   A blodge of blue on the eyelids, a blodge of black on the eyelashes, white face and red mouth. Like a little clown.'

   1995, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, A Well-Painted Passion, page 110

2. Something with an irregular amorphous shape.

   My nose be purple veined, a blodge that dribbles like a leaking tube of glue.

   2011, Aidan Chambers, Breaktime & Dance on My Grave, page 96

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   Whether an amoebic blodge or a zebra, the struggle for existence has always been a bloodbath of death and displacement, without sentiment, without compassion.

   2010, Jeffrey Schloss, Michael Murray, The Believing Primate

present singular third person blodges · participle present blodging · participle past blodged · past blodged

1. To splat; to hit a surface and deform into a blodge.

   A pocket of dread blodged into my belly about what might happen next.

   2016, Holly Bourne, How Hard Can Love Be?

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   The varnish goes on more smoothly when blodged on thickly but will take a day or two to dry really hard—and then you can scrape the smears off the lenses

   1951, Corona: The Journal of His Majesty's Colonial Service

2. To mark with blodges.

   The window was open and the pillow of the bed was blodged with rain.

   2008, P. D. James, Cover Her Face

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   The handwriting hardly changes, except in moments of great distress when it shrinks, becoming barely legible while the pages are often blodged with ink, or even with tears.

   1989, A bright remembrance, page 4

   She kept trying to stop the tears, but they rushed down her cheeks blodging her careful make-up, clogging her nose.

   1995, Anne Redmon, The Judgement of Solomon, page 50