gobbety

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English

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Etymology

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From gobbet +‎ -y.

Adjective

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gobbety (comparative more gobbety, superlative most gobbety)

  1. Like gobbets; having the texture of gobbets.
    • 1984, John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick:
      [] that's the way the roundworm feels when a big gobbety mess of half-digested steak or moo goo gai pan comes sloshing down to him.
    • 2006, Stephen King, Cell:
      [] the pen had made a grinding sound against the bone of the old man's eyesocket when it finally let go, and there had been a loose, gobbety plopping sound as something fell from the bent tip of the pen's steel nib onto the blotter.