glob

A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.

He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.

A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

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.

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