glob

[ glob ]

noun

1. a drop or globule of a liquid.
2. a usually rounded quantity or lump of some plastic or moldable substance:

   a little glob of clay; a huge glob of whipped cream.

glob

/ ɡlɒb /

noun

1. informal.
   a rounded mass of some thick fluid or pliable substance

   a glob of cream

Word History and Origins

Origin of glob¹

1895–1900; perhaps blend of globe and blob

Word History and Origins

Origin of glob¹

C20: probably from globe , influenced by blob

Example Sentences

It cracked open, and a yellow-orange glob suspended in a thick clear goo oozed out.

From Literature

These ogres did not have multiphasic glob coils or photonic scramblers, let alone an intergalactic teleporter.

From Literature

Felix Beaudry’s “The Glob Mother and Lazy Boy,” a suggestive, larger than life stuffed sculpture in knit tapestry, threatens to suck all the oxygen out of the room.

From New York Times

Mirrors appear: Sokol’s youthful illness is reflected in Glob’s life-threatening pregnancy complications.

From New York Times

Sokol’s portraiture keeps shape-shifting as she matures as a painter, just as Glob’s portrait of Sokol keeps mutating.

From New York Times

Related Words

• blob
• clump
• gob