blobby
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Middle English blobby, equivalent to blob + -y.
Adjective
[edit]blobby (comparative blobbier, superlative blobbiest)
- Similar in shape to blobs; amorphous and rounded in appearance; partially irregular in appearance like bubbles.
- 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 10, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:
- They were of all sizes, from little gnomes barely a foot high to stately figures taller than men. […] There were long, pointed noses, and long, soft noses like small trunks, and great blobby noses.
- 2004, Isaac V. Kerlow, The Art of 3D: Computer Animation and Effects, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 130:
- The magnitude of the attraction force of blobby elements is usually defined by their volume […] In an animation, blobby surfaces are dynamic and constantly regenerate as they move in and out […]
- 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in SCP Foundation[1], archived from the original on 29 May 2024:
- The orchestra is gone. All seventy of them. The things which have replaced them are not human but alien, ill-proportioned pillars of pinkish-brownish flesh. Each has, at its top, a heavy protuberance studded with goopy biological sensors and rubbery openings, and, sprouting from the very cap, lengths of various kinds of vile, off-coloured moss. They are draped in black and white fabrics, weirdly cut to either conceal or highlight their blobby, inconsistent body structures.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]similar in shape and appearance to blobs
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