splodge

plural splodges

1. informalAn irregular-shaped splash, smear, or patch.

   The consequence was that the stupid girl now had ended up with a bright blue ink splodge on her white “see through” blouse […]

   2011, Kenneth Rhienhart, It Wasn't Me, AuthorHouse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 293

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   It was a strip of absolute desert, where the only vegetation was the occasional splodge of moss, which lay over the sand edging of the salt flats like livid green cowpats.

   2007, Anne Mustoe, Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver: By Bicycle and Train Through South America, Virgin Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 155

   The 'rainbows' we had seen in the cockpit were two bright round splodges of light called sun dogs, one either side of the sun, joined together by a golden ring of light.

   2012, Gabrielle Walker, Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2013, →ISBN, page 146

present singular third person splodges · participle present splodging · participle past splodged · past splodged

1. informalTo make a splodge; to render as a splodge.

   Her features had been crudely handsome, too, like Millie's, but booze had splodged their outlines.

   1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 159