▪ I. splodge, n.
(splɒdʒ)
[Cf. next and splotch n.]
A thick, heavy, or clumsy splotch.
| 1854 Househ. Words IX. 74/1 She was a dollop of dripping, a splodge of grease. 1862 Sala Accepted Addr. 275 The monstrous splodges of colour the marvellous man sent of late years to the..exhibitions. 1880 Mrs. Parr Adam & Eve xxviii. 388 To..display the two splodges of red sealing-wax. |
▪ II. splodge, v.
(splɒdʒ)
[Imitative of the sound.]
1. intr. To trudge or plod splashily through mud or water.
| 1859 A. Whitehead Leg. (1896) 56 (E.D.D.), Away he splodg'd in pensive mood, Towards the temple in the wood. 1899 F. V. Kirby Sport E.C. Africa ix. 106 As I had braved the first [muddy channel] and got wet through, I ‘splodged’ through them all in succession. |
2. Used adverbially: With a heavy splash.
| 1898 H. Kirke 25 Yrs. Brit. Guiana 180, I had hardly spoken when splodge! splodge! came the rain in my face. |
Hence ˈsplodger. (See quot.)
| 1860 Slang Dict. 224 Splodger, a lout, an awkward countryman. |