nurdle

[Tait-ka]

Wiktionary:
nurdle: A blob of toothpaste shaped like a wave, often depicted on toothpaste packaging. (Noun definition #3 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nurdle)

Please look at the amount of the toothpaste on a toothbrush in the picture above. Is that is what the Wiktionary talking about? Do you native speakers use this word?

 

[emsr2d2]

I've never heard that word in my life. I don't have a specific name for the blob/line/strip/stripe/mess of toothpaste I stick on my brush.

 

[Skrej]

I've never heard of it either. When I google it, I mostly get references to small plastic pellets used in the manufacturing of other plastic products. Indeed, that's the only entry for it in Webster's.

Remember that anyone can create and add to Wikipedia entries. The only source of veracity is peer review and if it's not a topic anyone else cares about, it may not even get that peer review.

I suspect that's what happened with the 3rd Wikipedia entry. Someone's just having a bit of fun. Maybe that is their own actual term for it.

Personally, I just call it a 'blob' of toothpaste, or maybe a 'squeeze'. I don't guess I've ever felt the urge to name it. I'm too focused on making sure it doesn't fall off the brush.

 

[Rover_KE]

I'm familiar with the word, but only as a verb used in cricket.

To score runs by gently nudging the ball into vacant areas of the field.

(Wiktionary}

to score runs in cricket by deflecting (the ball) rather than striking it hard

(Collins}