blodge
Appearance
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]blodge (plural blodges)
- An uneven patch of color.
- 1995, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, A Well-Painted Passion, page 110:
- A blodge of blue on the eyelids, a blodge of black on the eyelashes, white face and red mouth. Like a little clown.'
- 2005, Laurence Fleming, On Torquemada's Sofa, page 51:
- A purple blodge, a yellow blodge, a green blodge, a brown blodge for God's sake. I hadn't noticed it before.
- Something with an irregular amorphous shape.
- 2010, Jeffrey Schloss, Michael Murray, The Believing Primate:
- Whether an amoebic blodge or a zebra, the struggle for existence has always been a bloodbath of death and displacement, without sentiment, without compassion.
- 2011, Aidan Chambers, Breaktime & Dance on My Grave, page 96:
- My nose be purple veined, a blodge that dribbles like a leaking tube of glue.
Verb
[edit]blodge (third-person singular simple present blodges, present participle blodging, simple past and past participle blodged)
- To splat; to hit a surface and deform into a blodge.
- 1951, Corona: The Journal of His Majesty's Colonial Service:
- 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 lenses
- 2016, Holly Bourne, How Hard Can Love Be?:
- A pocket of dread blodged into my belly about what might happen next.
- To mark with blodges.
- 1989, A bright remembrance, page 4:
- 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.
- 1995, Anne Redmon, The Judgement of Solomon, page 50:
- She kept trying to stop the tears, but they rushed down her cheeks blodging her careful make-up, clogging her nose.
- 2008, P. D. James, Cover Her Face:
- The window was open and the pillow of the bed was blodged with rain.
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Verb
[edit]blodge (present tense blodgar, past tense blodga, past participle blodga, passive infinitive blodgast, present participle blodgande, imperative blodge/blodg)
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]blōdġe