The blob of toothpaste that sits on your toothbrush is called a nurdle. This word also describes a small piece of plastic pertaining to manufacturing plastic for certain products. These two descriptions may be related because of the small piece of either the plastic or the toothpaste. In most toothpaste commercials, we see that wavy squirt of toothpaste that stretches as long as the brush. While most people don’t put their toothpaste on their brush so fancily, this is an example of a nurdle. Some toothpaste companies have fought over this blob of toothpaste. Whether it be the copyrighted colors, the way the nurdle is shown in their commercials, the actual word, “nurdle,” etc., but it can be legally settled and disputed civilly.