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Grammar : Noun
Spell : gob
Phonetic Transcription : gɒb

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Définition of gobs

Origin :
  • "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).
  • noun multitude
  • noun lump
Example sentences :
  • The muck gave every step a slurping sound, and it clung in gobs.
  • Extract from : « Smugglers' Reef » by John Blaine
  • Avoid putting on the adhesive material in "gobs and slathers."
  • Extract from : « The Butterfly Book » by William Jacob Holland
  • We'll go aboard with his party not as officers, but as gobs.
  • Extract from : « Dave Dawson at Truk » by Robert Sydney Bowen
  • Nobody ever looks at a couple of gobs in a vice-admiral's inspection party.
  • Extract from : « Dave Dawson at Truk » by Robert Sydney Bowen
  • I gave out we just dropped in for fresh vegetables and fruit and I expect my gobs have loaded up by now.
  • Extract from : « The Radio Detectives Under the Sea » by A. Hyatt Verrill
  • And the amazing man drew out of his torn flapping furs the gobs of meat he had cut from the dead bear.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories, July, 1931 » by Various
  • So with our bone knives we hacked off gobs of the still warm flesh, covered with great layers of fat.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories, July, 1931 » by Various
  • The rain had soaked our lunch as well as us and we threw it away in gobs; we counted on supper in Green Valley.
  • Extract from : « Pluck on the Long Trail » by Edwin L. Sabin
  • They let him come nearer and when he was a hundred yards away Delahunty said, "By gobs, it's Cockney!"
  • Extract from : « Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences » by Nebraska Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
  • Even the man's face was splattered, his clothing encrusted with gobs of still-damp mud.
  • Extract from : « The Native Soil » by Alan Edward Nourse

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