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Definitions and meaning of gob

gob

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gŏb, IPA^(key): /ɡɒb/
• (General American) enPR: gŏb, IPA^(key): /ɡɑb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

From Middle French gobe, goube (“lump, mouthful”), from Gaulish.

Noun

gob (countable and uncountable, plural gobs)

1. (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
   • 1952, The Glass Industry, Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company, page 309,

     These inventors have discovered that gobs may be fed at widely spaced times without allowing the glass to flow during the interval but instead flushes^[sic] out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.

2. (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.

   Synonyms: saliva, spit, sputum

3. (US, regional) A whoopee pie.

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Verb

gob (third-person singular simple present gobs, present participle gobbing, simple past and past participle gobbed)

1. To gather into a lump.
   • 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich, Field & Stream, page 60,

     I liked to gob up two or three worms on a snelled hook, pinch three or four split shot onto the leader, and plunk it into the dark water.

2. (slang, transitive, intransitive) To spit, especially to spit phlegm.

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Etymology 2

Probably from Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, mouth”).

Noun

gob (plural gobs)

1. (countable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: cakehole, face, mush, trap

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Etymology 3

Back-formation from gobbing, or a specified use of Etymology 1, above.

Noun

gob (plural gobs)

1. (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.

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Verb

gob (third-person singular simple present gobs, present participle gobbing, simple past and past participle gobbed)

1. (mining, intransitive) To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.

Etymology 4

Shortened from gobby or gobshite.

Noun

gob (plural gobs)

1. (US, military, slang) A sailor. [from 20th c.]
   • 1918 October 22, Letter of Adlai Stevenson, quoted in John Bartlow Martin, Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976), page 53:

     Well I have taken the oath of allegiance for 4 years service anywhere in the world and am now a real 'gob' in the U. S. Navy.

   • 1928, Hart Crane, letter, 27 April:

     If it weren't for the Fleet I should scarcely be able to endure it. Gobs are always amusing, as you know.

   • 1944 November, Fitting the Gob to the Job, Popular Mechanics, page 18,

     For the first time in history, new warship crews are virtually “prefabricated” by modern methods of fitting the gob to the job.

   • 1948 June, Fred B. Barton, Mending Broken Gobs, The Rotarian, page 22,

     Taking a safe average of 2,000 rehabilitated young gobs a year, that′s a total of 100,000 years of salvaged manhood, a target worth shooting at.

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Anagrams

• BOG, bog

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gop, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“mouth”) (compare French gober (“gulp down”) and gobelet (“goblet”) from Gaulish) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵebʰ- (“jaw, mouth”); compare Russian зоб (zob, “goitre”), jowl from Old English ċēafl; German Kiefer (“jaw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔbˠ/
• (Munster, also) IPA^(key): /ɡɞbˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡʌbˠ/

Noun

gob m (genitive singular goib, nominative plural goba)

1. beak, bill (of a bird etc.)
2. tip, point, projection
3. pointy nose
4. nib
5. (colloquial) mouth

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Verb

gob (present analytic gobann, future analytic gobfaidh, verbal noun gobadh, past participle gobtha)

1. (transitive, intransitive) peck (ar (“at”)) (as a bird etc.)
2. (intransitive) project, stick out, up

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References

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gob”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “gob” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “gob” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish gop, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵebʰ- (“jaw, mouth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kop/

Noun

gob m (genitive singular guib, plural guib or goban)

1. bill, beak, nib, tip

   duilleag na ghob ― a leaf in its bill

   gob circe ― a hen's bill

   gob pinn ― nib of a pen

   gob na stocainn ― a tip of the sock

2. point

   gob an rubha ― the point of the headland

   gob na snàthaide ― the point of the needle

3. mouth

   gob na cùiteige ― the mouth of the whiting

4. garrulity
5. babble

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References

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “gob”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

Slovene

Noun

gob

1. genitive dual/plural of goba