Gob vs Nob - What's the difference?
gob | nob |
(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.
(slang, chiefly, British) a wealthy or influential person; a toff
:: Baldrick, Blackadder Goes Forth
The head.
(cribbage) a jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.
(slang) The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis.
To hit in the head
As nouns the difference between gob and nob
is that gob is a lump of soft or sticky material while nob is a wealthy or influential person; a toff.As verbs the difference between gob and nob
is that gob is to gather into a lump while nob is {{cx|informal|lang=en}} To hit in the head.As a proper noun Nob is
a place, north of Jerusalem, whose inhabitants were massacred by Saul.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
* ----nob
English
Etymology 1
* From "nobleman" or "member of the nobility" (Doubtful) * From "white-nob" (Eighteenth century) or "white-head", referring to the powdered wigs used by those affecting upper middle-class status.Noun
(en noun)- The masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.
Etymology 2
(en)Noun
(en noun)- Jack and Jill went up the hill / to fetch a pail of water; / Jack fell down and broke his crown / and Jill came tumbling after. / Up Jack got and home did trot, / as fast as he could caper, / to old Dame Dob / to mend his nob / with vinegar and brown paper.
- One for his nob .