gob
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gŏb, IPA(key): /ɡɒb/
- (General American) enPR: gŏb, IPA(key): /ɡɑb/
- Rhymes: -ɒb
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle French gobe, goube (“lump, mouthful”), from Gaulish.
Noun[edit]
gob (countable and uncountable, plural gobs)
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- (US, regional) A whoopee pie.
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Verb[edit]
gob (third-person singular simple present gobs, present participle gobbing, simple past and past participle gobbed)
- To gather into a lump.
- 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.
- 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich, Field & Stream, page 60,
- (slang, transitive, intransitive) To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
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Etymology 2[edit]
Probably from Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, mouth”).
Noun[edit]
gob (plural gobs)
- (countable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth. [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: cakehole, face, mush, trap
- He′s always stuffing his 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.
- 2005, “Tango”, in Public Warning, performed by Lady Sovereign:
- Now washing you will be like washing a goth / All that black lipstick around their gobs
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Etymology 3[edit]
Back-formation from gobbing, or a specified use of Etymology 1, above.
Noun[edit]
gob (plural gobs)
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
- 1930, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 130, page 330:
- This consisted in wheeling gob back to the most distant part of the stope and filling up the sets right up to the roof.
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Verb[edit]
gob (third-person singular simple present gobs, present participle gobbing, simple past and past participle gobbed)
- (mining, intransitive) To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.
Etymology 4[edit]
Shortened from gobby or gobshite.
Noun[edit]
gob (plural gobs)
- (US, military, slang) A sailor. [from 20th c.]
- 1918 October 22, Letter of Adlai Stevenson, quoted in John Bartlow Martin, Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976), page 53:
- Well I have taken the oath of allegiance for 4 years service anywhere in the world and am now a real 'gob' in the U. S. Navy.
- 1928, Hart Crane, letter, 27 April:
- If it weren't for the Fleet I should scarcely be able to endure it. Gobs are always amusing, as you know.
- 1937, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 94:
- Full-cut, dashing "gob" slacks with back pocket.
- 1944 November, Fitting the Gob to the Job, Popular Mechanics, page 18,
- For the first time in history, new warship crews are virtually “prefabricated” by modern methods of fitting the gob to the job.
- 1948 June, Fred B. Barton, Mending Broken Gobs, The Rotarian, page 22,
- Taking a safe average of 2,000 rehabilitated young gobs a year, that′s a total of 100,000 years of salvaged manhood, a target worth shooting at.
- 1918 October 22, Letter of Adlai Stevenson, quoted in John Bartlow Martin, Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976), page 53:
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish gop, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“mouth”) (compare French gober (“gulp down”) and gobelet (“goblet”) from Gaulish) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵebʰ- (“jaw, mouth”); compare Russian зоб (zob, “goitre”), jowl from Old English ċēafl; German Kiefer (“jaw”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gob m (genitive singular goib, nominative plural goba)
- beak, bill (of a bird etc.)
- tip, point, projection
- pointy nose
- nib
- (colloquial) mouth
- Dún do ghob!
- Shut your mouth!
Declension[edit]
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Verb[edit]
gob (present analytic gobann, future analytic gobfaidh, verbal noun gobadh, past participle gobtha)
- (transitive, intransitive) peck (ar (“at”)) (as a bird etc.)
- (intransitive) project, stick out, up
Conjugation[edit]
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
gob | ghob | ngob |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “gob”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “gob” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “gob” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 21
Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish gop, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵebʰ- (“jaw, mouth”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gob m (genitive singular guib, plural guib or goban)
- bill, beak, nib, tip
- duilleag na ghob ― a leaf in its bill
- gob circe ― a hen's bill
- gob pinn ― nib of a pen
- gob na stocainn ― a tip of the sock
- point
- gob an rubha ― the point of the headland
- gob na snàthaide ― the point of the needle
- mouth
- gob na cùiteige ― the mouth of the whiting
- garrulity
- babble
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Mutation[edit]
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
gob | ghob |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References[edit]
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “gob”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
Slovene[edit]
Noun[edit]
gob
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