on the blob

English

Etymology

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

Prepositional phrase

on the blob

  1. (Britain, slang, vulgar) Menstruating; on one's period.
    • 1993 April 19, Sean McAfee, “The Great a.t. IRC Party, part III”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet), message-ID <1993Apr19.224852.14466@mtu.edu>:
      <julian> I have no problems fucking wimin on the blob. But some of them do
    • 1997 July 3, Nicholas Lezard, “Paperbacks”, in The Guardian, page A14:
      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.
    • 2012, Damon Beesley, Iain Morris, The Inbetweeners: The Complete Scripts with Added Extras, Random House, page 285:
      Katie Can you stop staring at my tits please? []
      Jay She must be on the blob.
    • 2015 February 13, Caitlin Moran, “Celebrity Watch”, in The Times:
      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.

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