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glob¹

  • /ɡlɑb/ US
  • /ɡlɒb/ UK

Rhymes with -ɑb, -ɒb

Where it comes from

Possibly a blend of blob + gob, or a clipping of globule. An element of sound symbolism is clearly involved: compare such phonetically and semantically similar words as glop, gop, lob, blob, lump, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.)

In the biological sense, proposed by Bevil R. Conway and Doris Y. Tsao, by analogy with the cytochrome-oxidase "blobs" of V1, an earlier stage in the hierarchical elaboration of colour.

noun globs

  1. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance. He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
  2. A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

verb globs · globbing · globbed

  1. To stick in globs or lumps. […] paint globbed on the canvas, marring the careful shadowing he'd created on the snowbank. It was an amateurish mistake, completely unworthy of an artist of Teddy's skill.

glob²

  • /ɡlɑb/ US
  • /ɡlɒb/ UK

Rhymes with -ɑb, -ɒb

Where it comes from

Originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; clipping of global.

noun globs

  1. A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.

verb globs · globbing · globbed

  1. To carry out pattern matching using a glob. In filename globbing, * means any character, group of characters, or no characters at all.

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"glob." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/glob. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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glob. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/glob

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"glob." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/glob.

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@misc{glob_2026,
  title = {glob},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/glob},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}