Blot vs Bloo - What's the difference?
blot | bloo |
A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
* Shakespeare
(by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
* Shakespeare
(biochemistry) The Southern blot analysis (and derived Northern and Western) analytical techniques.
(backgammon) an exposed piece in backgammon.
to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
to soak up or absorb liquid.
To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
* Gascoigne
To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
* Shakespeare
To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
* Rowe
To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out .
* Dryden
To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
* Cowley
*{{quote-book, year=1870, author=Various, title=Punchinello Vol. 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1838, author=William Makepeace Thackeray, title=Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush, chapter=, edition=
, 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. }}
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)- inky blots
- This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
Verb
- This paper blots easily.
- The briefe was writte and blotted all with gore.
- It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
- Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
- to blot out a word or a sentence
- One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
- He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.
Derived terms
* blotting paper * blot outAnagrams
* ----bloo
English
Adjective
(head)citation
citation
citation
Verb
(head)citation