Dictionary Definition
gob
Noun
1 a man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt,
seafarer, sea dog]
2 a lump of slimey stuff; "a gob of phlegm"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From and/or etyl gd gob.Pronunciation
- gŏb, /ɡɒb/, /gQb/
Noun
- A lump of soft or sticky material.
- In the context of "UK|countable|slang": The mouth.
- He's always stuffing her 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.
- Oi, you, shut your gob!
- He's always stuffing her gob with fast food.
- In the context of "uncountable|slang": Saliva or phlegm.
- He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
- In the context of "US military slang": Sailor.
Synonyms
Translations
The mouth
Sailor
Derived terms
Verb
- To spit, especially to spit phlegm
Translations
Irish
Etymology
From gop < (cf. French gober and gobelet from Gaulish) < ; cf. jowl < Old English ceafl; German Kiefer.Pronunciation
- lang=ga|[ɡɔbˠ]
Conjugation
Mutation
Extensive Definition
Gob may refer to:
- Mouth
- Whoopie pie, a type of dessert food
- Gob (band), a punk band from Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Gob, the king of the gnomes in folklore
- Gob or boney piles, low-coal-content waste from coal mining operations
- Gob, a cylinder of molten glass used in the Glass Container Industry
- Gob (mining), a cavity behind a longwall (See Longwall mining.)
GOB as an acronym may refer to:
- GObject Builder, an object preprocessor for GObject/C
- George Oscar "G.O.B." Bluth II, a fictional character on the TV show Arrested Development
- Gobowen railway station, England, by National Rail station code
gob in French: GOB
gob in Italian: GOB
gob in Dutch: GOB
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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quantities, quantity, quid, rasher, ration, rondure, row, scoop, scrap, shard, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver, small amount, smithereen, snack, snap, snatch, snip, snippet, snowball, sphere, spheroid, spherule, splinter, stitch, stockpile, stump, sum, swabbie, swallow, tatter, trap, wad, wads, yap