gobby
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of gobby
Of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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Both frontmen recall feeling pressure to live up to the NME's ideal of a gobby frontman.
From BBC • May 8, 2025
Second place receives something that’s for giving away: It’s a prank gift box labeled “Emma Dean’s Earwax Candle Kit,” complete with a big photo of a huge gobby brownish candle.
From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2020
By her teen-age years, McTeer was, in her own words, “a gobby, opinionated political novice who spoke loudly of my beliefs with little respect for anyone else’s opinion.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016
It needs a gobby, headline-grabbing mayor because in such a centralised political system, it's the only way to get anything done.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2016
The walls were painted with thick, gobby epoxy paint, and all the electrical outlets were plugged around the edges with a gooey material.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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