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• n  an irregularly shaped spot
• v  blotch or spot

• The splotch of infantile paralysis which broke out in North Carolina early this summer (PTI, June 24) had by last week spread to Virginia, dribbled into the District of Columbia.
• He thought he saw a mannequin sprawled on the floor, until he noticed a splotch of blood by its ear.
• A waggish, 15-minute tale about the wondrous 'work habits of a dribble-and-splotch painter .

• blotch
• splodge

News & Articles

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• Can You Locate the Place We’re About to Bomb on a Map?
  Damascus in that red splotch. Good job, some people! These are the results from the last 500 people who tried to locate Damascus — the capital of Syria, a.k.a. the place we're about to bomb — on a borderless, label-less map of the world. It's not terrible?
  Aug. 29, 2013 - New York Magazine