Gob vs Clod - What's the difference?
gob | clod | Related terms |
(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.
A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
* Milton
* E. Fairfax
* Francis Bacon
* T. Burnet
* 2010 ,
The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
* Jonathan Swift
A stupid person; a dolt.
Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
To pelt with clods.
(Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
* G. Fletcher
As nouns the difference between gob and clod
is that gob is a lump of soft or sticky material while clod is a lump of something, especially of earth or clay.As verbs the difference between gob and clod
is that gob is to gather into a lump while clod is to pelt with clods.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
* ----clod
English
Noun
(en noun)- clods of iron and brass
- clods of blood
- The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod', is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller ' clod .
- this cold clod of clay which we carry about with us
- "What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.
- the clod where once their sultan's horse has trod
- (Dryden)
Verb
(clodd)- (Jonson)
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- clodded gore
- Clodded in lumps of clay.