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Dollop
Definitions
- 1 A considerable lump, scoop, or quantity of something, especially soft food.
"Each pancake comes with a dollop of suspiciously soft butter in a tiny plastic cup."
- 2 a small measure (usually of food) wordnet
- 1 To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops. transitive
"She dolloped a generous quantity of mustard on her hot dog."
- 2 To dole out in a considerable quantity; to drip in a viscous form. ambitransitive
"[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."
Etymology
From earlier East Anglian dialectal dallop (“patch, tuft (of grass, etc.)”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal Norwegian dolp (“lump”).
From earlier East Anglian dialectal dallop (“patch, tuft (of grass, etc.)”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal Norwegian dolp (“lump”).
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