splodge

An irregular-shaped splash, smear, or patch.

Noun

  1. An irregular-shaped splash, smear, or patch.
    • 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...
    • 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, →ISBN, 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...

Origin

Probably a variation of splotch.

Forms

splodges

Synonyms

splotch

Derived

splodgy

Verb

  1. To make a splodge; to render as a splodge.
    • 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, →OCLC, page 159:

Forms

splodges splodging splodged

Synonyms

splotch