British slang; mouth. As in "Shut your gob!" Oh, that is wonderful. In US slang, and I think only in the plural, gobs, it can mean "lots and lots" of something. Gobs of chocolate candy. In South Africa, gob is a slang term with the same meaning as loogie. 1. (U.K.) mouth: the human mouth (slang disapproving).
2. (slang) Saliva or phlegm.
3. Navy enlisted person; a sailor in the U.S. Navy (slang).
4. Clot or lump of a soft or wet substance (slang).
5. (N. Amer.) A lot of; a large quantity or amount (slang humorous - often used in the plural). "She wears gobs of makeup".
6. (Also called goaf) - Mining waste or barren material.
7. Gab - idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness. [Colloq., 'Gift of gab']
8. (Mining) That part of a mine from which the mineral has been
partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings. "To work the
gob" - to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to
support the roof, and replace them with props.
9. A pit (a place mentioned in 2 Sam. 21:18, 19; called also Gezer, in 1 Chr. 20:4.).
10. Cistern; grasshopper
Usually means 2 things:
A sailor
Slang term for a mouth
It's archaic, but it's a word - it means mouth.
גאָב - which is best rendered in Roman lettering as "gob."
A word that has the same meaning as another word is a synonym.
Some words that contain the root word "onym" are synonym (meaning a word with a similar meaning), antonym (meaning a word with the opposite meaning), and homonym (meaning a word that sounds the same but has a different meaning).
The root word meaning "nerve" is "neur-" from the Greek word "neuron" meaning sinew or nerve.
The term "gob" is British slang for mouth, possibly originating from the Irish word "gob," meaning beak or mouth. It is primarily used informally and has no specific reason for why it is called a gob.
It's archaic, but it's a word - it means mouth.
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gob...british slang
גאָב - which is best rendered in Roman lettering as "gob."
גאָב - which is best rendered in Roman lettering as "gob."
Gob is a synonym for a seaman.
Yes, a dollop is a small gob.
to be dumb struck (speechless) by surprise From Coal Mining: The hole created by the removal of waste material was known as the Gob (from the slang for mouth). Occasionally the roof of the gob would cave in this was known as Gob being Smacked. The miners in the surrounding area would get an enormous fright from the incident and would be startled. They were said to have been Gob Smacked.
Art Gob was born on 1937-11-07.