gob
/gɔb/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A lump or mass of a soft or slimy substance: A gob is a small, often shapeless amount of a thick, viscous material.
- Informal term for the mouth: Used in a casual, often slightly crude way to refer to someone's mouth.
- Informal term for a sailor: A slang term for a man who serves in the navy or as a seaman.
Usage Examples
- Noun (lump):
- He spat a gob of chewing gum onto the pavement.
- There was a gob of paint on the floor where the can had spilled.
- Noun (mouth):
- "Shut your gob!" he yelled during the argument.
- She took a big bite, stuffing her gob with cake.
- Noun (sailor):
- The old gob told stories about his years at sea.
- A group of gobs were on leave in the port city.
Advanced Usage
- "Gob" as a verb is very rare and non-standard, but in some dialects, it can be related to the act of spitting or expectorating, stemming from the noun form meaning a lump of phlegm.
- He gobbed on the ground in disgust.
Variants and Related Words
- Gobbet (n): A small lump or portion of something, especially food. This is a more formal variant.
- He tore off a gobbet of bread.
- Gobful (n, informal): A mouthful; also used in the idiom "to give someone a gobful" meaning to yell at or scold them severely.
- She gave him a real gobful for being late.
Synonyms
- Lump/Blob: For the meaning of a soft mass.
- Trap/Maw/Yap: Informal synonyms for mouth.
- Sailor/Seaman/Seafarer: For the meaning of a sailor.
Related Phrasal Verbs/Compounds
- Gobsmacked (adj, informal): Utterly astonished or shocked. (Literally, as if struck in the mouth).
- I was absolutely gobsmacked by the news.
- Gobstopper (n): A very large, hard spherical candy.
- The child sucked on a giant gobstopper.
Related Idioms
- Shut your gob!: A rude command telling someone to be quiet.
- He was talking nonsense, so I finally told him to shut his gob.
- Gob on a stick: (British slang, derogatory) A meaningless or foolish person.
- He's about as useful as a gob on a stick.
Noun
- informal terms for the mouth
- a lump of slimy stuff
- a gob of phlegm
- a man who serves as a sailor