Word of the Day: Bleb

Bleb (noun)

1. A bubble.
2. Medicine/Medical. A blister or vesicle.

Origin

Bleb is considered imitative of a blister itself. It is also related to the Middle English word ‘blob’.

Quotes

One day, as he was bathing her, a bleb of shampoo had streamed into her eye, and she had kept a hand pressed to it for the rest of the day, quailing away from him whenever he walked past.
— Kevin Brockmeier, Things That Fall From the Sky



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