Noun

(en noun)

A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.

* 1869 : Norman Lockyer et al, Nature

Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment .

* 1895 : The Annual of the British School at Athens

It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs , which can just be distinguished on the photographs.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

But there, on the very top, is a hollow full of water, with a sandy bottom; with a blob of jelly stuck to the side, and some mussels.

In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422151828.htm]

(dialect) A bubble, a bleb.

A small freshwater fish (Uranidea richardsoni ); the miller's thumb.

Noun

foam

Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2 , He replaced her again breadthwise on the couch, unable to sit up, with her thighs open, between which I could observe a kind of white liquid, like froth , hanging about the outward lips of that recently opened wound, which now glowed with a deeper red.}}

(figuratively) unimportant events or actions; drivel

* L'Estrange

It was a long speech, but all froth .

Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth ?