Chiefly north. Also 6 blab. [cf. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To mark with a blob of ink or color; to blot or blur.
1429. Sc. Acts Jas. I., II. 17/2. Swa þat þai halde þe forme of the breif … & be nocht rasit na blobit in suspect place.
1599. Porter, Angry Wom. Abingt. (1841), 91. She will not haue one of those pearled starres To blab her sable metamorphosis.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., 114. Gif the libell or summons is blobbed, or rased in suspect places.
2. intr. To rise in a bubble or bubbles.
1855. Whitby Gloss., Blob, to boil or bubble up like water, when anything acts upon it by plunging or otherwise.
3. intr. ? To produce blobs or bubbles; to ‘flop’ in the water.
1875. Whitby Gloss. (E. D. S.), Blob, to plunge into the water.
1884. Blackw. Mag., March, 346/1. The wretched trout came back empty, blobbing and jumping on the stream.
