blodge

noun

1. An uneven patch of color.

   “A blodge of blue on the eyelids, a blodge of black on the eyelashes, white face and red mouth. Like a little clown.'”

   “A purple blodge, a yellow blodge, a green blodge, a brown blodge for God's sake. I hadn't noticed it before.”

2. Something with an irregular amorphous shape.

   “Whether an amoebic blodge or a zebra, the struggle for existence has always been a bloodbath of death and displacement, without sentiment, without compassion.”

   “My nose be purple veined, a blodge that dribbles like a leaking tube of glue.”

verb

1. To splat; to hit a surface and deform into a blodge.

   “The varnish goes on more smoothly when blodged on thickly but will take a day or two to dry really hard—and then you can scrape the smears off the lenses”

   “A pocket of dread blodged into my belly about what might happen next.”

2. To mark with blodges.

   “The handwriting hardly changes, except in moments of great distress when it shrinks, becoming barely legible while the pages are often blodged with ink, or even with tears.”

   “She kept trying to stop the tears, but they rushed down her cheeks blodging her careful make-up, clogging her nose.”

   “The window was open and the pillow of the bed was blodged with rain.”