dollop

noun

1. A considerable lump, scoop, or quantity of something, especially soft food.

   “Each pancake comes with a dollop of suspiciously soft butter in a tiny plastic cup.”

   “Dallop, s[ubstantive] a deal heap, a division or small heap,[…]”

   “DALLOP, s[ubstantive] […] 5. A clumsy and shapeless lump of any thing tumbled about in the hands.”

   “Dollop, sb. [substantive] 1. An awkward or clumsy-looking portion of anything, as of bread or meat. 2. A quantity or number of individuals forming a shapeless whole. […] 1. 'Weel! thee's getten a fairish dollop, thee has. It's a wem-fu' fur tweea as big as thou.' 2. 'Yon troot's biggest o' t' dollop by owght.'”

verb

1. (transitive)To apply haphazardly in generous lumps or scoops.

   “She dolloped a generous quantity of mustard on her hot dog.”

   “They cobbler the plums they put up back in summer, / They bake a wild turkey and roast backstrap deer, / They dollop the sourdough for rising and baking, / And pass each to each now the brown jug of cheer.”

   “She dollops porridge into a bowl and trickles condensed milk over the top.”

2. (ambitransitive)To dole out in a considerable quantity; to drip in a viscous form.

   “[P]eas are, when in season, the article most frequently "dolloped," especially since such large quantities have been sent to market, from distant places, by the railways, as they heat very much, and the shell decomposing, becomes a bad colour, and unfits the article for the regular market in a very short space of time. They are now "shot" into a cart, and a sack or two of green ones purchased to spread over the top of them, for the purpose of deceiving "green ones" of another description.”

   “The guard bounced his cock up, and the cock-snot dolloped onto the floor. Without instruction, Mark lowered his head beneath the towering statue and licked the creamy blob of lubrication up.”

   “"It's fah-bu-lous to have these early salads, from the greenhouse, but don't they make you just long for summer?" Cath says to no one in particular as she dollops away generously onto plates.”