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In fourteenth-century England, it was adapted from an older French word employed for “mouthful,” gobe.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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It happens that gobe is from the substrate language that was spoken by people who became speakers of Latin and, in time, French.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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It happens that gobe is from the substrate language that was spoken by people who became speakers of Latin and, in time, French.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In fourteenth-century England, it was adapted from an older French word employed for “mouthful,” gobe.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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We also caught 13 gobe once but we don't count them.
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We also caught 13 gobe once but we don't count them.
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After the local pilchard and anchovy stocks collapsed, the penguins were forced to search out new and less abundant prey items, such as gobe, red hake, and squid, but it was already too late.
The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010
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Synonym: un gobe-mouche (literally "a swallows flies," or "fly swallower," from the image of a gaper standing with his/her mouth wide open -- a sure target for les mouches!)
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Synonym: un gobe-mouche (literally "a swallows flies," or "fly swallower," from the image of a gaper standing with his/her mouth wide open -- a sure target for les mouches!)
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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Synonym: un gobe-mouche (literally "a swallows flies," or "fly swallower," from the image of a gaper standing with his/her mouth wide open -- a sure target for les mouches!)
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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