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blotchwork

blotchwork noun: something with a blotchy appearance.

Noun

blotchwork (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural) Something with a blotchy appearance.
    • , London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 19,
      He was clothed in what had once been a suit of black material, but was now so bleached by sun and soaked in a hundred dews that it had become a threadbare blotchwork of olive-and-grey rags […]
    • Her cheeks were a hideous blotchwork of flush and pallor, and there were great blackened hollows under her grit-sealed eyes.1983, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale

Origin of blotchwork

From blotch + work.

Questions about blotchwork

What does blotchwork mean?
Blotchwork means something with a blotchy appearance.
What part of speech is blotchwork?
Blotchwork is a noun.

Words near blotchwork in the dictionary

  1. blotchily
  2. blotchiness
  3. blotching
  4. blotchings
  5. blotchless
  6. blotchwork
  7. blotchy
  8. blote
  9. blotes
  10. blother
  11. blothered

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