blodge

English

Noun

blodge (plural blodges)

1. 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.

2. 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

blodge (third-person singular simple present blodges, present participle blodging, simple past and past participle blodged)

1. 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.

2. 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

• begold, globed

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

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

1. alternative form of blodga (non-standard since 2012)