Gob vs Bob - What's the difference?
gob | bob |
(countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
* 1952 , The Glass Industry , Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company,
(countable, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
(uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
(US, military, slang) A sailor.
* 1944' November, ''Fitting the '''Gob to the Job'', '' ,
* 1948' June, Fred B. Barton, ''Mending Broken '''Gobs'' , ''The Rotarian ,
(uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
* 1930 , Engineering and Mining Journal , Volume 130,
To gather into a lump.
* 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich'', '' ,
To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water.
To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
To curtsy.
To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
* Elyot
A bobbing motion.
A bobber.
* Lauson
A curtsy.
A bob haircut.
Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it
* 1773 ,
The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
The docked tail of a horse.
A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
The short runner of a sled.
A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
A working beam in a steam engine.
A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
(obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
* Shenstone
(obsolete) The refrain of a song.
* L'Estrange
(obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
* Shakespeare
To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop
Short form of bobsleigh
A shilling.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
:1933 , (George Orwell), (Down and Out in Paris and London) , xxix
::‘’Ere]] s for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a [['og, ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.’
* 1960 , , (Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter XVII
A 10-cent coin.
(slang) An unspecified amount of money.
* Spot me a few bob , Robert.
(computer graphics) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
* 1986 , Eugene P Mortimore, Amiga programmer's handbook, Volumes 1-2
* 1995 , "John Girvin", Blitting bobs'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.amiga.programmer )
* 2002 , "demoeffects", Demotized 0.0.1 - A collection of demo effects from the early days of the demo scene.'' (on Internet newsgroup ''fm.announce )
As nouns the difference between gob and bob
is that gob is (countable) a lump of soft or sticky material while bob is broad bean, horse bean.As a verb gob
is to gather into a lump.gob
English
Noun
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(sic) out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.
- He?s always stuffing his gob with fast food.
- Oi, you, shut your gob !
- She's got such a gob on her – she?s always gossiping about someone or other.
- He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
page 18,
- For the first time in history, new warship crews are virtually “prefabricated” by modern methods of fitting the gob to the job.
page 22,
- Taking a safe average of 2,000 rehabilitated young gobs a year, that?s a total of 100,000 years of salvaged manhood, a target worth shooting at.
page 330,
- This consisted in wheeling gob back to the most distant part of the stope and filling up the sets right up to the roof.
Synonyms
* (the mouth) ** (standard) mouth ** cakehole, face, mush, trap * (saliva) ** (standard) saliva, spit, sputum **Derived terms
* gobby * gobshite * gobsmacked * gobstopper / gob stopper / gob-stopper * shut your gob * gob-upVerb
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.
Anagrams
* ----bob
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(bobb)- The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.
- The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.
- I bobbed my head under water and saw the goldfish.
- bob''' one's head'' (= to ' nod )
- He was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.
Derived terms
* bobber * bob for apples * bob upNoun
(en noun)- a bob of the head
- Or yellow bobs turn'd up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Ecod! I have got them. Here they are. My cousin Con's necklaces, bobs and all.
- A plain brown bob he wore.
- To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song.
- He that a fool doth very wisely hit, / Doth very foolishly, although he smart, / Not to seem senseless of the bob .
Verb
(bobb)- I got my hair bobbed . How do you like it?
Etymology 3
Noun
(bob)- One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers saying he'd give a passage to Canada for twenty bob .
Derived terms
* bob-a-job * bent as a nine-bob note * two-bob bitUsage notes
* The use of bob for shilling is dated slang in the UK and Australia, since decimalisation. In East African countries where the currency is the shilling, it is current usage, and not considered slang. OED gives first usage as 1789. * The use of bob to describe a 10-cent coin is derived from the fact that it was of equal worth to a shilling during decimalisation, however since then, the term has slowly dropped out of usage and is seldom used today.Etymology 4
Etymology 5
(blitter) (object)Noun
(en noun)- The bob list determines the drawing priority...
- IMHO, youd (SIC) be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs , esp on a machine with fast ram.
- Changes: This release adds 2 new effects (bobs and unlimited bobs), has a GFX directory for sharing graphics, adds utility functions to the common code...