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Blot vs Splodge - What's the difference?

blot | splodge |

As nouns the difference between blot and splodge

is that blot is a norse pagan ritual sacrifice, now performed by the followers of asatru while splodge is an irregular-shaped splash, smear, or patch.

As a verb splodge is

to make a splodge.

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

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    splodge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An irregular-shaped splash, smear, or patch.
  • * 2007 , Anne Mustoe, Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver: By Bicycle and Train Through South America , Virgin Books (2007), ISBN 9780753512746, page 155:
    • 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.
  • * 2011 , Kenneth Rhienhart, It Wasn't Me , AuthorHouse (2011), ISBN 9781456789879, page 293:
    • The consequence was that the stupid girl now had ended up with a bright blue ink splodge on her white “see through” blouse
  • * 2012 , Gabrielle Walker, Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2013), ISBN 9780151015207, page 146:
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * splotch

    Verb

  • To make a splodge

    • Synonyms

    * splotch

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