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blodge

blodge noun: an uneven patch of color.

Noun

blodge (plural blodges)

  1. An uneven patch of color.
    • 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
    • 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
  2. Something with an irregular amorphous shape.
    • 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
    • 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

Verb

blodge (third-person singular simple present blodges, present participle blodging, simple past and past participle blodged)

  1. To splat; to hit a surface and deform into a blodge.
    • 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 lenses1951, Corona: The Journal of His Majesty's Colonial Service
    • A pocket of dread blodged into my belly about what might happen next.2016, Holly Bourne, How Hard Can Love Be?
  2. To mark with blodges.
    • 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

Forms of blodge

Noun
pluralblodges
Verb
third-person singular presentblodges
present participleblodging
past participleblodged
pastblodged

Questions about blodge

What does blodge mean?
Blodge means an uneven patch of color.
What part of speech is blodge?
Blodge can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of blodge?
The plural of blodge is blodges.

Words near blodge in the dictionary

  1. blocos
  2. blocs
  3. blocwide
  4. BLOD
  5. Blodeuwedd
  6. blodge
  7. blodged
  8. blodger
  9. blodgers
  10. blodges
  11. Blodgett

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