dollop

dol lop |ˈdäləp ˈdɑləp | ▶noun informal a shapeless mass or blob of something, esp. soft food: great dollops of cream | figurative : a dollop of romance here and there. ▶verb ( dollops, dolloping, dolloped ) [ with obj. ] add (a shapeless mass or blob of something ) casually and without measuring: Chekov stopped him from dolloping sugar into his coffee. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (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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dol ¦lop |ˈdɒləp | ▶noun informal a large, shapeless mass of something, especially soft food: great dollops of cream | figurative : a dollop of romance here and there. ▶verb ( dollops, dolloping, dolloped ) [ with obj. and adverbial of direction ] add (a large mass of something ) casually and without measuring: she stopped him from dolloping cream into his coffee. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (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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dollop noun informal a dollop of whipped cream: blob, gobbet, lump, ball; informal glob.

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dollop noun informal she had a little dollop of cream on her nose: blob, glob, gobbet, lump, clump, ball, mound; Brit. informal gob, wodge.

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dol lop /dɑ́ləp |dɔ́l -/ (!｟くだけて ｠) 名詞 C (柔らかいどろっとした食品などの )ひとかたまり ▸ a dollop of cream (スプーン )ひとすくいのクリーム 動詞 他動詞 «…に » 〈柔らかい食物などのかたまり 〉を入れる, 載せる «into , onto » .