gob

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See also: göb and gøb

English

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Pronunciation

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 out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.
  2. (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
    Synonyms: saliva, spit, sputum
    He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
  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.
    Synonyms: cakehole, face, mush, trap
    He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food.
    Oi, you, shut your gob!
    She's got such a gob on her – she's always gossiping about someone or other.
    • 2005, “Tango”, in Public Warning, performed by Lady Sovereign:
      Now washing you will be like washing a goth / All that black lipstick around their gobs
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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.
    • 1930, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 130, page 330:
      This consisted in wheeling gob back to the most distant part of the stope and filling up the sets right up to the roof.
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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.
    • 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.
    • 1937, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 94:
      Full-cut, dashing "gob" slacks with back pocket.
    • 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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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

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
    Dún do ghob!
    Shut your mouth!

Declension

Derived terms

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

Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gob ghob ngob
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 38, page 21

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. bill, beak, nib, tip
    duilleag na ghoba leaf in its bill
    gob circea hen's bill
    gob pinnnib of a pen
    gob na stocainna tip of the sock
  2. point
    gob an rubhathe point of the headland
    gob na snàthaidethe point of the needle
  3. mouth
    gob na cùiteigethe mouth of the whiting
  4. garrulity
  5. babble

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
gob ghob
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “gob”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 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