From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishblobblob /blɒb $ blɑːb/ noun [countable]1LIQUIDa very small round mass of a liquid or stickysubstanceblob ofa blob of honey2SEEsomething that cannot be clearly seen, especially because it is far awayWithout a telescope, the comet will look like a fuzzy blob.Examples from the Corpusblob• Blobs of wax had dripped from the candle onto the table cloth.• Rita dropped a blob of paint on the new carpet.• Put a blob of glue on each surface and carefully press together.• Then I saw a blob of something floating in the water.• Astronomers say the comet will look like a fuzzyblob in the southwesternsky.• A big pinkblob of a face was at the window, peering in at him.• Thirty-two-year-old Mike Keneally managed to transform himself from a 28-stoneblob into a 14-stone hunk.• And then she picked up the map and stared at the blobs of green and yellow in the Aegean Sea.• Some were no more than motionlesstranslucentblobs.• All I could see, as usual, with my untrained eye, were blobs and shadows.Originblob(1700-1800) Probably from blob"bubble"((16-19 centuries)), perhaps from the sound made by the lips when producing a bubble