Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A spot or blot; a splotch.
- noun A discoloration on the skin; a blemish.
- noun Any of several plant diseases caused by fungi or bacteria and resulting in brown or black dead areas on leaves or fruit.
- transitive & intransitive verb To mark or become marked with blotches.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a disease of fruit or leaves, which cause the formation of spots, usually black in color.
- noun A pustule upon the skin.
- noun A spot of any kind, especially a large irregular spot or blot; hence, anything likened to a mere spot or blot, as a poor painting; a daub.
- noun A disease of dogs.
- To mark with blotches; blot, spot, or blur.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig..
- noun (Med.) A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
uneven patch ofcolor ordiscoloration . - noun An
irregularly shaped spot. - verb transitive To mark with blotches.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
- noun an irregularly shaped spot
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Her designer should have known that it was a bad choice for a dress to be seen on television and from a distance, though, because from a distance you can't see the subtle gradient that the red -- black creates ... it just looks like a big red blotch, which is why I thought it was ugly.
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The blossoms, mostly white and pinks, are little round tufts that drop petals any time the wind blows, so walking through a 'blotch' can feel like walking through a slow-motion snowstorm when the wind kicks up.
Cherry Blossoms: savemyseoul 2008
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"Over on the side there, where there's a kind of blotch, is the twins; they must be fighting.
The Madigans Miriam Michelson 1906
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On the night of March 24, 1993, astronomers Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy were searching the skies when they noted an oddly shaped blotch near Jupiter.
SETI Institute: How to Catch a Comet SETI Institute 2011
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I am trying to take us to one of the state parks, a big green blotch on my map.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Guston consistently seeks out the least degree of form that distinguishes a meaningless blotch of paint from something that reads as a definable object.
Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips Philip Kennicott 2011
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It is a blotch on the canvas of the English rugby club scene.
Northampton and Ulster bring authentic rugby to plastic surrounds | Eddie Butler 2011
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On the night of March 24, 1993, astronomers Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy were searching the skies when they noted an oddly shaped blotch near Jupiter.
SETI Institute: How to Catch a Comet SETI Institute 2011
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The stencils appear in strange spots, nearly a "Kilroy was here" anarchist blotch on the old city.
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But the rendering technique is more suited to the idea of these wine paintings; the relic motif, referencing used coasters and Rorschach's ink blotch tests.
Amy Bernays: New Technique Amy Bernays 2011
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