gob
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English[edit]
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]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gŏb, IPA(key): /ɡɒb/
- (General American) enPR: gŏb, IPA(key): /ɡɑb/
- Rhymes: -ɒb
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Audio (US) (file)
Noun[edit]
gob (countable and uncountable, plural gobs)
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (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.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
- (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.
- 1944 November, Fitting the Gob to the Job, Popular Mechanics, page 18,
- (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.
- 1930, Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 130, page 330,
- (US, regional) A whoopee pie.
Synonyms[edit]
- (the mouth):
- (saliva):
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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,
- To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
- (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”), Polish gęba (“mouth”).
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
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Dún do ghob!
- Shut your mouth!
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Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- gobadán m (“nosey parker”)
- gob siosúir m (“scissor-bill; beak-nosed person”)
Verb[edit]
gob (present analytic gobann, future analytic gobfaidh, verbal noun gobadh, past participle gobtha)
Conjugation[edit]
* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
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]
- "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)
- bill, beak, nib, tip
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duilleag na ghob ― a leaf in its bill
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gob circe ― a hen's bill
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gob pinn ― nib of a pen
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gob na stocainn ― a tip of the sock
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- point
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gob an rubha ― the point of the headland
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gob na snàthaide ― the point of the needle
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- mouth
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gob na cùiteige ― the mouth of the whiting
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- garrulity
- babble
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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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