Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

goboon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: go-b-oon
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A receptacle for spit; a spittoon, a spitbox; a spit bucket.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"He came into the limelight during segregation when a falling goboon brought with it a shower of something else and he earned the name of Reiny and a black N five stars."
"[About Antek's bar:] Neither bright neon nor a soft fluorescence lighted either his ceiling or his walls; but there was plenty of butchershop sawdust along the floor and an old-fashioned golden goboon for every four bar stools."
"In the House chamber, weary Speaker Sam Rayburn, pausing only to spit with experienced accuracy into his goboon, cleared hundreds of routine bills with incessant repetition of the magic words: "Without objection, so ordered.""

Etymology

From gob (“saliva”) + -oon.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: gob
Suffix: -oon

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

goboons (plural) gaboon (alternative)

Questions

What does goboon mean?: A receptacle for spit; a spittoon, a spitbox; a spit bucket.
Where does goboon come from?: From gob (“saliva”) + -oon.

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