Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

on the blob

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.07 in modern English

Syllables: on the blob
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

Menstruating; on one's period.

British usage; Slang

prep_phrase

Of begging etc.: performed by speaking to people, not by writing letters.

British usage; Obsolete; Slang

Example Sentences

"I have no problems fucking wimin on the blob. But some of them do"
"Sweet's heroines are – well, unskinny; they eat lard, drink, smoke, ponce off the state, have huge dumps and go on the blob at inconvenient times."
"Katie Can you stop staring at my tits please? […] Jay She must be on the blob."
"Personally CW can think of no tampon in the world it would trust while wearing a white dress, on the blob, at a glamorous media event."
"With this excusable class, however, I have not now to do. Of professional beggars there are two kinds—those who ‘do it on the blob’ (by word of mouth), and those who do it by ‘screeving,’ that is, by petitions and letters, setting forth imaginary cases of distress."

Etymology

(menstruating): Apparently a reference to the blobbing (i.e. dripping) of menstrual blood, likely following the model of on the rag.

Usage

British usage
Slang
Obsolete

Synonyms

on the rag

Questions

What does on the blob mean?: Menstruating; on one's period.
Where does on the blob come from?: (menstruating): Apparently a reference to the blobbing (i.e. dripping) of menstrual blood, likely following the model of on the rag.

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