dollop

noun

1. a lump or blob of some substance: dollops of mud.
2. a small quantity: Add a dollop of soda water to the mixture.

verb (used with object)

3. to dispense in dollops: to dollop whipped cream over the cake.

noun

1. a semisolid lump
2. a large serving, esp of food

verb

3. (tr foll by out) to serve out (food)

n.

1570s, from East Anglian dialectal dallop “patch, tuft or clump of grass,” of uncertain origin. Modern sense of “a lump or glob” is 1812. As a verb, from 1825.