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Definition of Dollop
1. Noun. A small measure (usually of food).
Definition of Dollop
1. Noun. a lump, scoop or considerable quantity of something. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To drip in a viscous form ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dollop
1. to dispense in small amounts [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dollop
Literary usage of Dollop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1887)
"A large piece, portion, or service ; " a dawd o' scone and a dollop o' cheese;"
also, a quantity, number, collection, assortment; "There's the hail ..."
2. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"22, 1859, 396: " There's a dollop (= a lot) of ... I, 115": "There she sits,
la/y, happy, passive; a pretty dollop of colour on the grey stone window-sill ..."
3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"tion of Dr. Minchin and the trenchant assertion of Mrs. dollop, the landlady ...
If that was not reason, Mrs. dollop wished to know what was; but there was ..."
4. Salopian Shreds and Patches (1877)
"AB THE DIALECT OF SHROPSHIRE (9 February, 1876). dollop and ... I am doubtful,
however, whether dollop is not a slang ward instead of a dialectic one, ..."
5. Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux by James Hardy Vaux (1819)
"DOBBIN, riband. See CANT. dollop, a dollop is a large quantity of any thing ;
the -whole dollop means the total quantity. ..."
6. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1873)
""A dollop of dough to mako a dumpling with." To dollop up, to form into small
shapeless masses, as clay, brick- earth, &o. Dolly, s. a beetle used in ..."
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