blobby
English
editEtymology
editFrom Late Middle English blobby, equivalent to blob + -y.
Adjective
editblobby (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
editTranslations
editsimilar in shape and appearance to blobs
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