dollop

noun

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Pronunciation: /ˈdɒləp/ / /ˈdɑləp/

Etymology: From earlier East Anglian dialectal dallop (“patch, tuft (of grass, etc.)”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal Norwegian dolp (“lump”).

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.”
“Dallop, s[ubstantive] a deal heap, a division or small heap,[…]”

Etymology: From earlier East Anglian dialectal dallop (“patch, tuft (of grass, etc.)”), of unknown origin. Compare dialectal Norwegian dolp (“lump”).

To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops.
“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.”
To dole out in a considerable quantity; to drip in a viscous form.
“[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.”