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Blot vs Bloo - What's the difference?

blot | bloo |

As verbs the difference between blot and bloo

is that blot is to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance while bloo is eye dialect of lang=en.

As a noun blot

is a blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.

As an adjective bloo is

eye dialect of lang=en.

blot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
  • * Shakespeare
  • inky blots
  • (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
  • * Shakespeare
  • This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
  • (biochemistry) The Southern blot analysis (and derived Northern and Western) analytical techniques.
  • (backgammon) an exposed piece in backgammon.
  • Verb

  • to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
  • to soak up or absorb liquid.
  • This paper blots easily.
  • To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
  • To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
  • * Gascoigne
  • The briefe was writte and blotted all with gore.
  • To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
  • * Shakespeare
  • It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
  • To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
  • * Rowe
  • Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
  • To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out .
  • to blot out a word or a sentence
  • * Dryden
  • One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
  • To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
  • * Cowley
  • He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.

    Derived terms

    * blotting paper * blot out

    Anagrams

    * ----

    bloo

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1870, author=Various, title=Punchinello Vol. 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Another chap had got my jack-nife, and was amusin' hisself by slashin' holes in my bloo cotton umbreller, which two other Muskeeters had shoved up, and was a settin' under, engaged in tyin' my panterloon legs into hard nots. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1902, author=Alfred Lewis, title=Wolfville Nights, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="'That's whatever!' assents this marshal gent, 'an' you can gamble a bloo stack that hangin' you is a bet we ain't none likely to overlook. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1918, author=J. Arthur Gibbs, title=A Cotswold Village, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The Consarvatives painted thurselves bloo , and the Radicals yaller, an' thay as danced the longest, the Roomans sent to Parlyment to rool the roost. }}

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1838, author=William Makepeace Thackeray, title=Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=I stayed there sicks years; from sicks, that is to say, till my twelth year, during three years of witch I distinguished myself not a little in the musicle way, for I bloo the bellus of the church horgin, and very fine tunes we played too. }}