blottoadj詞源 1/ˈblɒtəʊ/

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  informal(Very) drunk or intoxicated.

  • Dear old Squiffy was always rather a lad for the wassail-bowl. When I met him in Paris, I remember, he was quite tolerably blotto.
  • I drank a lot of wine – and afterwards, at Les Vikings, Akvavit – and was completely blotto (well, not completely, but enough to talk a lot and get the Hungarian talking and not be bored).

blottonoun詞源 1/ˈblɒtəʊ/

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  informalA person who is (very) drunk or intoxicated.

  • Remember, Blanche DuBois was a blotto and her trip to New Orleans didn't get her anywhere. Nuff said.
  • His [Joe Jonsson's] drawings and rollicking humor about burglars, cardsharps, turf punters, jockeys and "blottos" (drunks) were a continuation in theme of the work of the early Bulletin artists Alf Vincent and Ambrose Dyson.
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  artartsAn artwork created using blots of ink or paint.

  • The authors' most penetrating work seems to me, their contribution along the lines of the interview with the child, the use of sketches, blottoes, etc. "Draw a picture of this house. Who lives there? Show where the different members sleep" […]
  • The pictures on these cards which I am going to show you are such ink-blot pictures. They do not really represent anything. They are accidental blottos. All you have to do is to look at them one by one and tell me what they might be, what they could represent for you.

blottoverb詞源 1/ˈblɒtəʊ/

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  informalTo become or cause to become (very) drunk or intoxicated.

  • An entire bottle would have blottoed me. I marvel how Leigh managed to give my name to the manager.
  • Wherever distilled spirits dominate over beer or wine, this nocturnal culture emerges, and with it the kind of alcoholism that never plateaus but merely blottoes, retreating into a night of its own and sometimes remaining there for a week at a time. You witness this among Poles, Russians, Swedes and Finns, all of whom are expert blottologists.
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  informalTo be annihilated or destroyed; to be blotted out.

  • [H]is soul, spinning in centrifugal lust and fury until he sputters out through the hole in the center of him; going down like a gas bag—vault, cellar, ribs, skin, blood, tissue, mind, and heart all consumed, devoured, blottoed in final annihilation.
  • John Huston provides a few of the worst moments himself, or, at least, his tape editor does it for him by bumblingly patching on Huston's voice in one series of spot announcements—Jehovah himself dictating Creation to the sounds of [Toshiro] Mayuzumi's fade-in, fade-out neo-primordial slither. Even for what it is, the music is badly performed, poorly recorded, and blottoed by a veritable orgy of editing and dial diddling.

blottonoun詞源 2/ˈblɒtəʊ/

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  biochemistrybiologychemistryA reagent made from non-fat dry milk, phosphate buffered saline, and sodium azide, which is used to block protein binding sites for laboratory techniques such as blots and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

  • Secondary goat anti-rabbit antiserum coupled to horseradish peroxidase at a dilution of 1:500 in blotto was then incubated with the blot for 1 hour. Again the unbound antibodies were removed by three rinses in 10% blotto for 15 minutes.
  • Generalized background staining of colostral cell preparations was blocked most effectively with Blotto + 10% FBS.

blottonoun詞源 3/b(ə)ˈləʊtəʊ/

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  obsoletenauticaltransportOn Sulawesi: a hollowed-out tree trunk used as a boat.

  • The canoes that are in common use on the lake are of the most primitive and unstable type. They simply consist of a semi-cylinder, hollowed out of a tree stem, with the ends filled up with mud and grass. These canoes are called blotto or ballotto by the natives. […] They are of every size, from the child's blotto of ten or fifteen feet in length to the fisherman's craft of fifty.
  • The agent of the Packet Company is ready to give information about it, and to look after the hiring of horses and blottos.