gob
1- a mass or lump.
- gobs, Informal. a large quantity: gobs of money.
- Also called goaf. Mining. waste or barren material.
Origin of gob
1gob
2- a sailor, especially a seaman in the U.S. Navy.
Origin of gob
2gob
3- the mouth.
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4- gab1.
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4Related Words for gob
aggregation, hunk, morsel, gathering, cluster, fullness, concentration, bunch, cargo, congeries, hill, hoard, agglomeration, collection, bulk, haul, bundle, harvest, bank, abundanceExamples from the Web for gob
Contemporary Examples of gob
“After Gob, I felt like there were a lot of jobs that I took where people wanted me to emulate or copy that performance,” he says.
For the record, the best three episodes deal with Gob, Tobias, and Buster, and it's not even close.
Historical Examples of gob
Didn't Shandy always have a gob of it in his cheek—the dirty pig?
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
"Shut your gob, thief," shouted a voice, and a heavy scuffle ensued.
The False ChevalierWilliam Douw Lighthall
The Porcupine has killed the Gob (Malay), and our tribe must repay sevenfold.
In Court and KampongHugh Clifford
So when I slap a gob of it over your mouth and nose inhale hard and deep.
Subspace SurvivorsE. E. Smith
Gob, he'd adorn a sweepingbrush, so he would, if he only had a nurse's apron on him.
UlyssesJames Joyce
gob
1- a lump or chunk, esp of a soft substance
- (often plural) informal a great quantity or amount
- mining
- waste material such as clay, shale, etc
- a worked-out area in a mine often packed with this
- a lump of molten glass used to make a piece of glassware
- informal a globule of spittle or saliva
- (intr) British informal to spit
Word Origin for gob
gob
2- US slang an enlisted ordinary seaman in the US Navy
Word Origin for gob
gob
3- a slang word (esp Brit) for the mouth
Word Origin for gob
Word Origin and History for gob
"a mouthful, lump," late 14c., probably from Old French gobe "mouthful, lump," related to gober "gulp, swallow down," probably from Gaulish *gobbo- (cf. Irish gob "mouth," Gaelic gob "beak"). This Celtic source also seems to be root of gob "mouth" (mid-16c.), which is the first element in gob-stopper "a kind of large hard candy" (1928).