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noun
A lump of soft or sticky material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Saliva or phlegm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
Synonyms: saliva, spit, sputum
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A whoopie pie.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, regional
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A large amount.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
Synonyms: abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload, bucketful, bucketload, butt-ton, bumload, buttload, cartload, crapflood, crapload, deal, fuckload, fuckton, fuckwad, gob, great deal, hantle, heap, hecatomb, helluvalot, horseload, lashings, load, lot, mampus, many, mass, metric fuckton, metric shitload, mickle, mountain, muckle, multiplicity, multitude, pile, ream, shedload, shitflood, shitful, shitload, shitton, sight, slew, spadeloads, sum, superflux, ton, trainload, truckload, tun, vaultful, wagonload
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The mouth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang
Synonyms: cakehole, mush, trap, bazoo, chops, clam, clamshell, gob, hash-trap, kisser, laughing gear, maw, mouth, neb, ned, north and south, oral cavity, os, piehole, potato trap, puss, sucker, yap
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: business, mining
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A sailor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
(nautical)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: empty-gloss, no-gloss
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To gather into a lump.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: business, mining
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
informal terms for the mouth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: trap, cakehole, hole, maw, yap
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mouth, oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris
noun
a lump of slimy stuff
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk
noun
a man who serves as a sailor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, sea dog
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sailor, crewman
Narrower terms: able seaman, able-bodied seaman, boatswain, bos'n, bo's'n, bosun, bo'sun, deckhand, roustabout, helmsman, steersman, steerer, lighterman, bargeman, bargee, officer, ship's officer, pilot, sea lawyer, whaler
History
From Middle English gobbe (also Middle English gobet), from Old French gobet, gobe (“lump, mouthful”), from Transalpine Gaulish *gobbo- (“neb, muzzle”).
Probably from Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, mouth”).
Back-formation from gobbing, or a specified use of Etymology 1, above.
Shortened from gobby or gobshite.
Across languages
55 source translations are retained for this English entry.
