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dollop noun [ ˈdɒləp ]

• a large, shapeless mass of something, especially soft food.
• "great dollops of cream"
Similar: blob, glob, lump, clump, ball, mound, gobbet, gob, wodge,

dollop verb

• add (a large mass of something) casually and without measuring.
• "she stopped him from dolloping cream into his coffee"
Origin: late 16th century (denoting a clump of grass or weeds in a field): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian dialect dolp ‘lump’.


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