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plural splodges
(informal) An irregular-shaped splash, smear, or patch. quotations examples
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.
2007, Anne Mustoe, Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver: By Bicycle and Train Through South America, Virgin Books, published 2007, page 155
The consequence was that the stupid girl now had ended up with a bright blue ink splodge on her white “see through” blouse […]
2011, Kenneth Rhienhart, It Wasn't Me, AuthorHouse, published 2011, page 293
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.
2012, Gabrielle Walker, Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2013, page 146
third-person singular simple present splodges, present participle splodging, simple past and past participle splodged
(informal) To make a splodge; to render as a splodge. quotations examples
Her features had been crudely handsome, too, like Millie's, but booze had splodged their outlines.
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 159