dollop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier East Anglian dialectal dallop (“patch, tuft (of grass, etc.)”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal Norwegian dolp (“lump”).
Inflected forms:
form: dollops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dallop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dollops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dolloping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dolloped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dolloped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dallop
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A considerable lump, scoop, or quantity of something, especially soft food.
pos: noun
examples: Each pancake comes with a dollop of suspiciously soft butter in a tiny plastic cup.
Dallop, s[ubstantive] a deal heap, a division or small heap,[…]
DALLOP, s[ubstantive] […] 5. A clumsy and shapeless lump of any thing tumbled about in the hands.
In Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, and, indeed, wherever there is a large fruit and vegetable market, there are a number of persons who regularly attend it, for the purpose of purchasing whatever may be, at the time, very cheap—either fruits or vegetables. […] These people are known amongst the dealers and hawkers as "Dollopers," and the lots they purchase are called "Dollops;" indeed, the latter term is applied to any article that a dealer may have left, after the market is over, if there is much of it. The "Dollopers" are well known to the dealers, and they (the latter) frequently call out to them, if they see them looking about the market, and have a "dollop" of anything on hand; […]
Dollop, sb. [substantive] 1. An awkward or clumsy-looking portion of anything, as of bread or meat. 2. A quantity or number of individuals forming a shapeless whole. […] 1. 'Weel! thee's getten a fairish dollop, thee has. It's a wem-fu' fur tweea as big as thou.' 2. 'Yon troot's biggest o' t' dollop by owght.'
On lifting it up he was surprised by an unwonted feeling of stickiness; but when he held the instrument to the light, the reason revealed itself to him immediately in the form of a dollop of congealed chicken-broth, nicely rounded to the shape of the cup, which shot from its resting-place, with a clammy thud, on to his clean shirt-front, and then proceeded to slide rapidly down inside his dress waistcoat, leaving a snail-like track, dotted with grains of rice, behind it.
Although I was short and stubby, and could hardly manage a good serve or a great smash, what I lacked in height and strength I made up with dollops of enthusiasm and even managed it to the victorious throw-ball team.
gloss: To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She dolloped a generous quantity of mustard on her hot dog.
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.
She dollops porridge into a bowl and trickles condensed milk over the top.
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."
gloss: To dole out in a considerable quantity; to drip in a viscous form.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: [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.
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.
"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.
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