splodge

The footsteps appear as brief blips or lines and the gunshot as a larger splodge.

The best of the bunch is the citrus chile roast chicken sandwich, well seasoned and simply dressed with cheddar, tomato, lettuce and a splodge of ranch dressing.

Long fascinated by canine umwelt — how they experience the world — she had never before studied a puppy’s development from its origins as “a mewling splodge of fur,” as she writes, into adolescence and beyond.

It slurps and slithers around in your head in great smeary splodges, like a cornucopia of slugs.

Some of the bigger splodges are well known actors on the sky.