Globbed vs Flobbed - What's the difference?
globbed | flobbed |
(glob)
A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
(programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
(biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
To stick in globs or lumps.
(programming) To carry out pattern matching using a .
(flob)
(UK, slang) spittle, especially a piece of spittle that has been spat out
(UK, slang) To spit or to gob.
*2010 , Charlie Brooker, The Guardian , 27 Sep 2010:
*:I pointed out that they both looked equally unhappy, and that he was essentially kicking himself. He contemplated this for a moment, then flobbed at me and kicked the weakling slightly harder.
As verbs the difference between globbed and flobbed
is that globbed is (glob) while flobbed is (flob).globbed
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*glob
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(en noun)- He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.