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flob

British  
/ flɒb /

verb

  1. informal (intr) to spit

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of flob

C20: probably of imitative origin


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In rehearsals, Marlon is said to "flob around" so indifferently that the other actors get no benefit from the reading.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also the great flob was there, who came clattering and clanking up from the bottom of the basin, with his hard shells and heavy claws, as if he was the greatest fish alive.

From Ting-a-ling by Frank Richard Stockton

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