gob
/ɡɑb/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.70 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement."
- "gobs of money"
- "The story of “Strangers” is a cliché of well-to-do Manhattan: Husband makes gobs of money. Wife, despite her august educational pedigree, stays at home to raise the kids, relinquishing career and otherwise idling in the make-work realm of school boards and volunteering."
- "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."
- "He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food."
Etymology
From Middle English gobbe (also Middle English gobet), from Old French gobet, gobe (“lump, mouthful”), from Transalpine Gaulish *gobbo- (“neb, muzzle”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡɑb/
- British English: /ɡɒb/
Usage
- Countable
- Slang
- Uncountable
- American usage
- British usage
- Intransitive verb