gobshell
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Irish gob (“mouth”) + seile (“spittle”).[1]
Noun
[edit]gobshell (plural gobshells)
- (Ireland) A glob of saliva and/or phlegm projected out of a person's mouth.
- 2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys[2], London: Scribner, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 531:
- He fetched a phlegm and a gobshell splashed in the bladderwrack.