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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Irish and/or Scottish Gaelic gob (“‘beak, bill’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

Singular
gob

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural gobs

gob (countable and uncountable; plural gobs)

  1. (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
  2. (countable, British, Aust, New Zealand, Irish, 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.
  3. (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
    He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
  4. (US, military, slang) Sailor.

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Translations

a lump of soft or sticky material
the mouth
saliva or phlegm
sailor

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to gob

Third person singular
gobs

Simple past
gobbed

Past participle
gobbed

Present participle
gobbing

to gob (third-person singular simple present gobs, present participle gobbing, simple past and past participle gobbed)

  1. To spit, especially to spit phlegm

[edit] Translations

to spit

[edit] Anagrams

[edit] Irish

[edit] Etymology

From Old Irish gop < Proto-Celtic *gobbo- (“‘mouth’”) (cf. French gober (“‘gulp down’”) and gobelet (“‘goblet’”) from Gaulish) < Proto-Indo-European *g̑ebh- (“‘jaw, mouth’”); cf. jowl < Old English ċēafl; German Kiefer (“‘jaw’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ɡɔbˠ]

[edit] Noun

gob m.

  1. beak, bill (of a bird etc.)
  2. tip, point, projection
  3. pointy nose, sticky beak, cf. gobadán mná nosy parker of a woman

[edit] Declension

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gob goba
Vocative a ghoib a ghoba
Genitive goib gob
Dative gob goba

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an gob na goba
Genitive an ghoib na ngob
Dative leis an ngob

don ghob

 leis na goba

[edit] Verb

gob

  1. peck (as a bird etc.)
  2. project, stick out, up

[edit] Inflection

First Conjugation (A)
singular plural autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present gobaim gobann tú;
gobair†		 gobann sé, sí gobaimid gobann sibh gobann siad;
gobaid†		 gobtar
past ghob mé;
ghobas†		 ghob tú;
ghobais†		 ghob sé, sí ghobamar ghob sibh;
ghobabhair†		 ghob siad;
ghobadar†		 gobadh
future gobfaidh mé;
gobfad†		 gobfaidh tú;
gobfair†		 gobfaidh sé, sí gobfaimid;
gobfam†		 gobfaidh sibh gobfaidh siad;
gobfaid†		 gobfar
past habitual ghobainn ghobtá ghobadh sé, sí ghobaimis ghobadh sibh ghobaidís ghobtaí
imperative gobaim gob gobadh sé, sí gobaimis gobaigí gobaidís gobtar
conditional ghobfainn ghobfá ghobfadh sé, sí ghobfaimis ghobfadh sibh ghobfaidís ghobfaí
subjunctive present goba mé;
gobad†		 goba tú;
gobair†		 goba sé, sí gobaimid goba sibh goba siad;
gobaid†		 gobtar
past gobainn gobtá gobadh sé, sí gobaimis gobadh sibh gobaidís gobtaí
verbal noun gobadh
past participle gobtha

† Dialect form

[edit] Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gob ghob ngob
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

[edit] Scottish Gaelic

[edit] Etymology

From Old Irish gop

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: [g̊ob̊]

[edit] Noun

gob m.

  1. bill or beak of a bird
    • duilleag 'na ghob, a leaf in its bill
    • gob circe, a hen's bill
  2. mouth
    • gob na cuiteige, the mouth of the whiting
  3. garrulity
  4. point
    • gob an rubha, the point of the headland
    • gob na snàthaid, the point of the needle
    • gob a' phrìne, the pin's point
  5. babble
  6. bill or pee of an anchor

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] References

  • The Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary (Birlinn Limited, 1901-1911, Compiled by Edward Dwelly)
  • A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
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