gob

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɡɒb/    美 /ɡɑb/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lump of soft or sticky material. countable
    — 1952, The Glass Industry, Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company, page 309, These inventors have discovered that gobs may be fed at widely spaced times without allowing the glass to flow during the interval but instead flushes out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.
  2. The mouth. Commonwealth,Ireland,UK,slang
    — He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food.
  3. Waste material in old mine workings, goaf. uncountable
    — This consisted in wheeling gob back to the most distant part of the stope and filling up the sets right up to the roof.
  4. A sailor. US,slang
    — Well I have taken the oath of allegiance for 4 years service anywhere in the world and am now a real 'gob' in the U. S. Navy.
  5. Saliva or phlegm. slang,uncountable
    — He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
  6. A whoopie pie. US,countable,regional
  7. A large amount. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — gobs of money
动词 v.
  1. To gather into a lump.
    — 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich, Field & Stream, page 60, I liked to gob up two or three worms on a snelled hook, pinch three or four split shot onto the leader, and plunk it into the dark water.
  2. To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine. intransitive
  3. To spit, especially to spit phlegm. ambitransitive,slang

词形变化

gobs plural gobs present,singular,third-person gobbing participle,present gobbed participle,past gobbed past gobs plural gobs plural gobs present,singular,third-person gobbing participle,present gobbed participle,past gobbed past gobs plural gobs plural gog alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
dough gob glob gobber tooth gobble gobby gobful gob iron gobline gob off goboon gobshite gobsmacked gobsmacker gobsmacking gobstopper gob-string gobstruck gob up goo-gob shut one's gob rent-a-gob

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gobbe (also Middle English gobet), from Old French gobet, gobe (“lump, mouthful”), from Transalpine Gaulish *gobbo- (“neb, muzzle”).
词源 2
Probably from Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, mouth”).
词源 3
Back-formation from gobbing, or a specified use of Etymology 1, above.
词源 4
Shortened from gobby or gobshite.
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