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blobbily en · ADV

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From blobby + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a blobby manner.
   • Inside, it was darker than a plains bungalow, all the woodwork being stained and blobbily varnished; the rooms were much smaller. 1954, Philip Mason, The Men Who Ruled India: The Guardians, St. Martin's Press, page 194:
   • (Actually the engraving depicts Dickens glancing sideways at some blobbily drawn spectators enjoying a Punch and Judy show outside his window—a scene that much more accurately reflects the kind of source from which he drew his early inspiration.) 2011, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist, Belknap Press, →ISBN, page 267:
   • I sat on the floppy purple thing inflating blobbily behind me. "Just how far away are you?" It firmed beneath me. 1984, Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Wesleyan University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 136:

Forms

Translations (2)

fi kokkareisesti (in a blobby manner) · fi epämääräisesti (in a blobby manner)