Dollop

Definition: Dollop

Dollop

Noun

1. A small measure (usually of food).

Date "dollop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	A side order consists of a white-meat tuna, a dollop of mayonnaise, some carrot strips and potato chips. (Without You I'm Nothing; writing credit: Sandra Bernhard; John Boskovich)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	(2) color slides show different types of pie. (1) slice of lemon meringue, (1) slice of coconut cream with a dollop of whipped cream. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Dollop" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Dollop" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.65%	44	51,500
Noun (proper)	4.35%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	46	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "dollop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		porcion (allowance, batch, dose, helping, portion, ration), lyej trashë. (various references)

Arabic		‏وجبة بوظة. (various references)

Bulgarian		капка (bead, dribble, dribblet, drip, drop, minim, modicum, shred, tear, tincture, vestige), малко количество (bit, dab, dash, dreg, dribblet, drop, jot, modicum, nibble, pennyworth, relish, scantling, smatter, soupcon, sprinkling, thimbleful, tot, trickle), буца (bunch, chunk, cob, gibbosity, gob, hunch, intumescence, junk, knob, lump, nub, protuberance, tuber), парче (bar, bit, cake, catch, cob, cut, cutting, fragment, lump, patch, piece, portion, scrap, section, slice, slip, slipping, snatch, splint, splinter). (various references)

Czech		flák (whopper). (various references)

French		gros morceau, bloc. (various references)

German		masse (assets, bulk, crowd, dimensions, estate, heaps, horde, host, lump, mass, mixture, mob, pile, stacks), Klumpen (agglutination, chunk, chunkily, clod, clot, clots, clump, clumps, cob, go lumpy, gob, gobs, lump, nugget), klacksen (go smack, splash), klacks (blob, cinch, glob, piece of cake, splosh), brocken (boulder, boulders, chunk, gobbet, gobbets, hunk, hunks, lump, scrap, snatch, whopper). (various references)

Greek		κομμάτι (bit, gobbet, item, piece, sheet, snipping). (various references)

Hungarian		massza (body of earthenware). (various references)

Italian		grumo (blob, clot, lump). (various references)

Manx		glout (block, block of buildings, bolus, chunk, clump, lump). (various references)

Pig Latin		ollopday

Portuguese		torrão (cake, chunk, clod, cob, divot, lump, turf), montão (accumulation, congeries, crowd, heap, mass, multitude, peck, pile, rick, ruck, stack), bocado (bit, bite, cantle, chip, fragment, gob, gobbet, lump, morsel, mouthful, piece, portion, scrap, shiver, slice, smack, snatch, snip, sprinkle). (various references)

Romanian		bucatã (article, bar, brick, clod, cut, fragment, hunk, junk, length, morsel, nub, part, Pat, patch, piece, ribbon, shred, slice, snack, steak, tablet). (various references)

Russian		солидная порция, здоровый кусок. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trunka (bit, crumb, grain, scintilla, shred, sprinkling, whit), grumen (clod, clump, knob, lob, lump, nub, nugget). (various references)

Spanish		porción grande, porción (crumb, dosage, lot, Pat, portion, slice, wedge, whack), parte enorme, masa (body, bulk, dough, lump, mass, paste, volume). (various references)

Swedish		klump (clod, clog, clot, clump, cob, hunch, lump), klick (blob, click, clique, misfire, Pat, set). (various references)

Turkish		topak (chunk, clew, clue, cob, glob, hunch, knurl, lump, nub, pellet, pulp), bir parça (a bit, a bit of a, a little, a piece of, dosage, dose, element, faint, ounce, piece, some, something of, somewhat, soupcon), azıcık (a little, bare, few, fractional, lick, little, only just, slight, slim, spot of, sprinkle of, sprinkling of, thimbleful). (various references)

Ukrainian		великий кусок. (various references)

Vietnamese		cục to. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dollop": dolloped, dolloping, dollops. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dollop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adolfoi, dholuo, dilap, dllop, dlop, dollea, dolloped, Dollor, dollup, dolo, doloe, dolop, Dolpo, dolup, wollop. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "dollop" (pronounced dÄ"lup)
4	-Ä" l u p	polyp, wallop.
3	-l u p	develop, envelop, fillip, gallop, Julep, redevelop, scallop, tulip.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-l-l-o-o-p"
	-2 letters: doll, loop, plod, poll, polo, pood, pool.
	-3 letters: dol, loo, lop, old, pod, pol.
	-4 letters: do, lo, od, op.
	Words containing the letters "d-l-l-o-o-p"
	+1 letter: dollops.
	+2 letters: clodpole, clodpoll, dolloped, lolloped.
	+3 letters: clodpoles, clodpolls, dolloping, loopholed, outpolled, polyploid, scolloped.
	+4 letters: codswallop, flapdoodle, floodplain, podophylli, polyploids, polyploidy.
	+5 letters: codswallops, flapdoodles, floodplains, haloperidol, pedological, petrodollar, podophyllin, podophyllum, protocolled.
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