dollop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒləp/
ipa: /ˈdɑləp/
rhymes: -ɒləp
Forms: form: dollops
form: dolloping
form: dolloped
form: dolloped
form: dallop
Etymology: From earlier East Anglian dialectal dallop (“patch, tuft (of grass, etc.)”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal Norwegian dolp (“lump”).
Senses: examples: text: She dolloped a generous quantity of mustard on her hot dog.
text: They cobbler the plums they put up back in summer, / They bake a wild turkey and roast backstrap deer, / They dollop the sourdough for rising and baking, / And pass each to each now the brown jug of cheer.
ref: 1996, Buck Ramsey, “Christmas Waltz”, in Christmas Waltz (Peregrine Smith book), Salt Lake City, Utah: Gibbs Smith; reprinted in “Remembrances of a Season: Sentiments on Waltzin’, Strollin’, Whittlin’, Roastin’, and Toastin’”, in Jesse Mullins, editor, American Cowboy, Sheridan, Wyo.: American Cowboy L.L.C., November–December 1996, →ISSN, page 82
text: She dollops porridge into a bowl and trickles condensed milk over the top.
ref: 2012, Ruth Saberton, Amber Scott is Starting Over, London: Orion, →ISBN:
text: Sketching possible strategies to meaningful carbon reduction, […] [Naomi] Klein unfortunately "drags the reader along on a syrupy tour of the entire New Age kitsch pantheon, from the 'brave' climate warriors who chain themselves to bulldozers over 'a lone Mi'kmaq mother kneeling in the middle of the highway before a line of riot police, holding up a single eagle feather' to the goat-herding yogi who 'can feel the earth breathe,' before finishing up by literally dolloping out wisdom from her womb."
ref: 2017, Wendy Lynne Lee, Eco-nihilism: The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse, Lanham, Md.; London: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops.
examples: text: [P]eas are, when in season, the article most frequently "dolloped," especially since such large quantities have been sent to market, from distant places, by the railways, as they heat very much, and the shell decomposing, becomes a bad colour, and unfits the article for the regular market in a very short space of time. They are now "shot" into a cart, and a sack or two of green ones purchased to spread over the top of them, for the purpose of deceiving "green ones" of another description.
ref: [1858?], “Felix Folio” [pseudonym; John Page], “And Last”, in The Hawkers and Street Dealers of the North of England Manufacturing Districts; … Being Some Account of Their Dealings, Dodgings, and Doings, 2nd edition, Manchester: Abel Heywood, 58, Oldham Street; London: T. W. Grattan, Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 129:
text: The guard bounced his cock up, and the cock-snot dolloped onto the floor. Without instruction, Mark lowered his head beneath the towering statue and licked the creamy blob of lubrication up.
ref: 2006, “The Guard”, in John Patrick, editor, Secret Passions: A New Collection of Erotic Tales, Herndon, Va.: STARbooks Press, →ISBN:
text: "It's fah-bu-lous to have these early salads, from the greenhouse, but don't they make you just long for summer?" Cath says to no one in particular as she dollops away generously onto plates.
ref: 2008, Rachel Johnson, Shire Hell, London: Penguin Books; republished as In a Good Place, Touchstone trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, June 2009, page 99
glosses: To dole out in a considerable quantity; to drip in a viscous form.