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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1420, 1500-1540, 1629, 1698
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Blob (Blobe), n. [Also e.m.E. (1570).] A bubble, a large drop; a pimple or pustule. c1420 Wynt. v. 622.
Owt at his mouth thai gert hym cast That paddog with a blob off blude c1500 Rowll Cursing 50.
Brukis, bylis, blobbis and bleistiris 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xliii.
Gif thay [= small fish] be handillit, thay melt away like ane blob of watter c1530-40 Stewart Bann. MS. 140 b/33.
Thay boldin blerit bawch blobbis [= souters] 1629 Z. Boyd Last Battell 36.
Though both his eyes should … droppe out like blobbes or droppes of water 1698 Seafield Corr. 250.
Ther is a blobe growing vpon the chyld Betties eye
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