Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A piece or chunk, especially of raw meat.
- n. A bit or morsel: a diary containing gobbets of useful information.
- n. A small amount of liquid; a drop.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mouthful; a morsel; a lump; apart; a fragment; apiece.
- n. A block of stone.
- To swallow in large masses or mouthfuls; gobble.
- To gut (fish).
Wiktionary
- n. a quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch
- n. a lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat
- n. an extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, translation or discussion in an examination.
- v. transitive To splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter.
- v. transitive To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A mouthful; a lump; a small piece.
- v. Low To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a lump or chunk of raw meat
Etymologies
- From Middle English gobet, from Middle French gobet ("mouthful, piece"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English gobet, from Old French, diminutive of gobe, mouthful; see gob1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Rytlock spit from the top of the wall and watched the gobbet fall a hundred feet down before smearing.”
“Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground.”
“It's too detailed to go into here, but one gobbet of fascinating info Peyotitlan served up was the apocryphal etymology of "gringo": "The US army wore green uniforms and when the locals saw them, simply said 'Green, go!' telling them to go away.”
“After revealing the gestation periods of cows and sheep, the third gobbet of knowledge it coughed up was that the chicken must have indeed preceded the egg.”
“Or a gobbet of spit landing on another woman's face before she is hit, hard, in the stomach.”
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“He coughs up a stringy gobbet but soon settles down to have his fill.”
“Go on, hold your nose and reread this gobbet of smug drivel.”
“No backbencher hit the target, not even Peter Tapsell whose question rambled on like a gobbet of Gibbon.”
“This mythic rustic food is presented as a single gobbet of flesh with a matchstick of bone sticking up as a handle -- letting you pop the thing, with its crisp, bird's-nest coating, into your mouth, but only after you've dredged it through teardrops of garlic cream and parsley purée.”
“In at least one of the exams (the course ran for 3 years), a section of the paper was a gobbet test on part of the Camilla-gate tapes ...”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gobbet’.
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Imprecise Units of Measurement
A list of terms for units of measurement that are less than exact, such as dessert-spoonful.
two shakes, dessert-spoonful, a pinch, a bit, some, smidge, smidgin, dollop, drop, fleck, smack, sprinkling and 187 more...
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1755
Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
absonous, adumbrate, agrammatist, alderlievest, ambages, ana, anfrantuous, aperitive, assapanick, babery, bellytimber, blatant and 103 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
gurns, bok, chimney breast, dichotomy, Platonic form, filthy, Platonic Form, mathematics, BAM, skirls, clarity, blundering and 298 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Inner B
Words with the letter b within the word, not just as the initial or last letter.
remember, maybe, able, unable, nimble, cable, reusable, thimble, cymbal, capable, tremble, enable and 143 more...
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words
diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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The Amulet of Samarkand
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand.
flunky, provenance, pare, rabbit in a covert, short shrift, bunker, trainers, tatty, lob, injunction, doss, bluster and 193 more...
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The Golem's Eye
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, The Golem's Eye.
ordure, widdershins, cop, stipple, ostler, struts, minaret, chemise, remonstrate, concussion, wicket, vamoose and 249 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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splat
splat, blob, blorp, slop, spatter, spit, blip, blat, splatter, blot, drip, drib and 15 more...
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hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian's Words
hippopotomonstros..., sesquipedalian, yamzetz, dissolute, gelid, indolent, bloviate, conapt, ululate, jeremiad, machinery, gobbet and 29 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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Food&Kitchen
drupe, brick, offal, triffle, scullion, larder, cog, tub, swill, dreg, banger, kedgeree and 25 more...
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Little Bites
appetizer, antipasto, gravlax, caponata, ceviche, rumaki, drumette, potato skin, crudites, escargot, pu pu, mandram and 55 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gobbet.
Louises He was still on his knees, propped up by the javelin, arms hanging inert, eyes half-closed, a thickened gobbet of dark blood hanging from his open mouth. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
Mar 30, 2012