splodge

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsplɒdʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒdʒ

Noun

splodge (plural splodges)

1. (informal) An irregular-shaped splash, smear, or patch.
   • 2007, Anne Mustoe, Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver: By Bicycle and Train Through South America, Virgin Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 155:

     It was a strip of absolute desert, where the only vegetation was the occasional splodge of moss, which lay over the sand edging of the salt flats like livid green cowpats.

   • 2011, Kenneth Rhienhart, It Wasn't Me, AuthorHouse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 293:

     The consequence was that the stupid girl now had ended up with a bright blue ink splodge on her white “see through” blouse […]

   • 2012, Gabrielle Walker, Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2013, →ISBN, page 146:

     The 'rainbows' we had seen in the cockpit were two bright round splodges of light called sun dogs, one either side of the sun, joined together by a golden ring of light.

Synonyms

• splotch

Verb

splodge (third-person singular simple present splodges, present participle splodging, simple past and past participle splodged)

1. (informal) To make a splodge; to render as a splodge.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 159:

     Her features had been crudely handsome, too, like Millie's, but booze had splodged their outlines.

Synonyms

• splotch

Anagrams

• plodges