blodge

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

begold, globed

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Verb edit

blodge (present tense blodgar, past tense blodga, past participle blodga, passive infinitive blodgast, present participle blodgande, imperative blodge/blodg)

alternative form of blodga (non-standard since 2012)