gob
A lump of soft or sticky materialA lump of soft or sticky material.
» Shut your gob!
Halt den Mund!
Halt’s Maul!
Halt die Goschen!
Halte den Mund!
Стули пельку!
Meaning
7 senses(countable)A lump of soft or sticky material.
Klumpen
a lump of slimy stuff
(slang, uncountable)Saliva or phlegm.
He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
(US, countable, regional)A whoopie pie.
(countable, in the plural, uncountable)A large amount.
gobs of money
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)The mouth.
He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food.
Oi, you, shut your gob!
Schnauze
informal terms for the mouth
(uncountable)Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
(US, 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.
a man who serves as a sailor
Examples
4 sentencesShut your gob!
Стули пельку!
deHalt den Mund!
She spent gobs of money on clothes.
If only you'd kept your gob shut, Tom!
deWenn du doch nur die Klappe gehalten hättest, Tom!
Shut your gob.
deHalt die Goschen!
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 2
Origin
From Middle English gobbe (also Middle English gobet), from Old French gobet, gobe (“lump,From Middle English gobbe (also Middle English gobet), from Old French gobet, gobe (“lump, mouthful”), from Transalpine Gaulish *gobbo- (“neb, muzzle”).
Probably from Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, mouth”).
Back-formation from gobbing, or a specified use of Etymology 1, above.
Shortened from gobby or gobshite.
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Forms
plural: gobsSynonyms
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22 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable