Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blob
Participle: blobbed
Gerund: blobbing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blob |
| you | blob |
| he;she;it | blobs |
| we | blob |
| you | blob |
| they | blob |
Perfect
| I | have blobbed |
| you | have blobbed |
| he;she;it | has blobbed |
| we | have blobbed |
| you | have blobbed |
| they | have blobbed |
Past
| I | blobbed |
| you | blobbed |
| he;she;it | blobbed |
| we | blobbed |
| you | blobbed |
| they | blobbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had blobbed |
| you | had blobbed |
| he;she;it | had blobbed |
| we | had blobbed |
| you | had blobbed |
| they | had blobbed |
Future
| I | will blob |
| you | will blob |
| he;she;it | will blob |
| we | will blob |
| you | will blob |
| they | will blob |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blobbed |
| you | will have blobbed |
| he;she;it | will have blobbed |
| we | will have blobbed |
| you | will have blobbed |
| they | will have blobbed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blob |
| you | blob |
| he;she;it | blob |
| we | blob |
| you | blob |
| they | blob |
Perfect
| I | have blobbed |
| you | have blobbed |
| he;she;it | have blobbed |
| we | have blobbed |
| you | have blobbed |
| they | have blobbed |
Imperfect
| I | blobbed |
| you | blobbed |
| he;she;it | blobbed |
| we | blobbed |
| you | blobbed |
| they | blobbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had blobbed |
| you | had blobbed |
| he;she;it | had blobbed |
| we | had blobbed |
| you | had blobbed |
| they | had blobbed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blob |
| you | would blob |
| he;she;it | would blob |
| we | would blob |
| you | would blob |
| they | would blob |
Perfect
| I | would have blobbed |
| you | would have blobbed |
| he;she;it | would have blobbed |
| we | would have blobbed |
| you | would have blobbed |
| they | would have blobbed |
Imperative
| you | blob |
| we | Let's blob |
| you | blob |
Verbs conjugated like 'blob'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blob'
blab,
bleb,
blog,
blop,
blot,
blow,
blub,
bob,
boob,
brob,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English *blob (“attested in blobby”). Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to bleb and blubber.
Sample Sentences
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Bones put the tiny crimson speck between his slides, blobbed a drop of oil on top, and focused the microscope. [1917, Edgar Wallace, chapter 6, in The Keepers of the King's Peace:]
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[…] a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home. [1957 October 7, “War of Nerves”, in Time:]
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She was beating something in a pail, beating it with her hands; her arms were blobbed with pink froth to the elbows. [1941, Emily Carr, chapter 20, in Klee Wyck:]
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Asked to do a mural in the coffee room of the Municipal Museum, Appel responded by blobbing all four walls and the ceiling with brilliant colors […] [1959 December 7, “The Big Appel”, in Time, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2013:]
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Caroline began to separate eggs, cracking them into unbelievably even halves, sliding the gold, round and elastic, from shell to shell, whilst the white hung, heavy, translucent, in thick sheets, and blobbed suddenly into her basin. [1964, A. S. Byatt, chapter 3, in The Shadow of the Sun, Harcourt, Brace & Co., published 1991, page 47:]
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2013, Marcus Berkmann, "Blood and gore of the real 'who dunnits'," Review of Silent Witnesses by Nigel McCrery, Daily Mail, 22 August, 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2400118/Blood-gore-real-dunnits-SILENT-WITNESSES-BY-NIGEL-MCCRERY.html
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[…] whether the blood has splashed, or blobbed, or trickled, can reveal whether the victim was killed here or moved afterwards.
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[…] where he had surreptitiously tickled small trout, or openly "blobbed" for eels with worms threaded on to darning wool when the rains came, […] [1937, The Argosy, volume 21, numbers 129-133, page 21:]