dollop noun a lump; hence, in a figurative sense, a clumsy individual; a formless mess – “a dollop of custard” UK,1812 From an earlier sense (a tuft of grass).
Here, a dollop of brown sauce, there, the dried mucus of a Marks and Spencer fish in white-wine sauce[.] — Jenny Eclair, CamberwellBeauty, p. 208, 2000