[Cf. next and SPLOTCH sb.] A thick, heavy or clumsy splotch.

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1854.  Househ. Words, IX. 74/1. She was a dollop of dripping, a splodge of grease.

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1862.  Sala, Accepted Addr., 275. The monstrous splodges of colour the marvellous man sent of late years to the … exhibitions.

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1880.  Mrs. Parr, Adam & Eve, xxviii. 388. To … display the two splodges of red sealing-wax.

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