gob

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English gobben, gabben (“to drink greedily”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of Middle English globben (“to gulp down”), related to Middle English gulpen (“to gulp”); or alternatively related to French gober (“swallow, gulp”), from Irish and/or Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, bill”), from Proto-Celtic *gobbos. See also gobbet.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

gob (countable and uncountable, plural gobs)

  1. (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
    • 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[sic] out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.
  2. (countable, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
    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.
  3. (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
    He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
  4. (US, military, slang) A sailor.
    • 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.
  5. (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.
  6. (US, regional) A whoopee pie.

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Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from gob

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

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

  1. 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.
  2. To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
  3. (mining, intransitive) To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.

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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 jowl from Old English ċēafl; German Kiefer (“jaw”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

gob m (genitive singular goib, nominative plural goba)

  1. beak, bill (of a bird etc.)
  2. tip, point, projection
  3. pointy nose
  4. nib
  5. (colloquial) mouth
    Dún do ghob!
    Shut your mouth!

Declension[edit]

Declension of gob

First declension

Bare forms:

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

Forms with the definite article:

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

don ghob

leis na ga

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

gob (present analytic gobann, future analytic gobfaidh, verbal noun gobadh, past participle gobtha)

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

Conjugation[edit]

First Conjugation (A)
singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present gobaim gobann tú;
gobair† 		gobann sé, sí gobaimid gobann sibh gobann siad;
gobaid† 		a ghobann; a ghobas /
a ngobann*; a ngobas* 		gobtar
past ghob mé; ghobas ghob tú; ghobais ghob sé, sí ghobamar; ghob muid ghob sibh; ghobabhair ghob siad; ghobadar a ghob /
ar ghob* 		gobadh
past habitual ghobainn ghobtá ghobadh sé, sí ghobaimis; ghobadh muid ghobadh sibh ghobaidís; ghobadh siad a ghobadh /
ar ghobadh* 		ghobtaí
future gobfaidh mé;
gobfad 		gobfaidh tú;
gobfair† 		gobfaidh sé, sí gobfaimid;
gobfaidh muid 		gobfaidh sibh gobfaidh siad;
gobfaid† 		a ghobfaidh; a ghobfas /
a ngobfaidh*; a ngobfas* 		gobfar
conditional ghobfainn ghobfá ghobfadh sé, sí ghobfaimis; ghobfadh muid ghobfadh sibh ghobfaidís; ghobfadh siad a ghobfadh /
ar ghobfadh* 		ghobfaí
subjunctive present go ngoba mé;
go ngobad† 		go ngoba tú;
go ngobair† 		go ngoba sé, sí go ngobaimid;
go ngoba muid 		go ngoba sibh go ngoba siad;
go ngobaid† 		— go ngobtar
past dá ngobainn dá ngobtá dá ngobadh sé, sí dá ngobaimis;
dá ngobadh muid 		dá ngobadh sibh dá ngobaidís;
dá ngobadh siad 		— dá ngobtaí
imperative gobaim gob gobadh sé, sí gobaimis gobaigí;
gobaidh† 		gobaidís — gobtar
verbal noun gobadh
past participle gobtha

* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form

Mutation[edit]

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.

Further reading[edit]

  • "gob" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “gop” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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)

  1. 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
  2. point
    gob an rubha ― the point of the headland
    gob na snàthaide ― the point of the needle
  3. mouth
    gob na cùiteige ― the mouth of the whiting
  4. garrulity
  5. babble

Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from gob

References[edit]

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “gop” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
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