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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a small measure (usually of food)

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: circa 1812 1. chiefly British an indefinite often large quantity especially of something liquid <out of heaven, as if a plug had been pulled, fell a jolly dollop of rain — E. M. Forster> 2. a lump or glob of something soft or mushy <top it with a dollop of jam> 3. an amount given, spooned, or ladled out ; portion <hold out their mess tins for a dollop of gruel — Robert Craft> 4. a small lump, portion, or amount <want just a dollop of ketchup> 5. something added or served as if in dollops <a delicious dollop of gossip — Leon Harris> II. transitive verb Date: circa 1860 to serve or dispense in dollops

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. a shapeless lump of food etc. --v.tr. (dolloped, dolloping) (usu. foll. by out) serve out in large shapeless quantities. Etymology: perh. f. Scand.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(dollops) A dollop of soft or sticky food is a large spoonful of it. (INFORMAL) ...a dollop of cream. N-COUNT: usu N of n

Moby Thesaurus

bit, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, collop, crumb, cut, cutting, dram, drop, end, fragment, gob, gobbet, hunk, jolt, lump, modicum, moiety, morsel, nip, paring, particle, piece, rasher, scoop, scrap, shard, shaving, shiver, shot, shred, slice, sliver, slug, smithereen, snack, snatch, snifter, snip, snippet, snort, splinter, stitch, stump, tatter, tot