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Gobbed vs Gobbet - What's the difference?

gobbed | gobbet |

As verbs the difference between gobbed and gobbet

is that gobbed is past tense of gob while gobbet is to splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter.

As a noun gobbet is

a quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch.

gobbed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (gob)

    • gob

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
  • * 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(sic) out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.
  • (countable, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
    • 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.
  • (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
    • He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
  • (US, military, slang) A sailor.
  • * 1944' November, ''Fitting the '''Gob to the Job'', '' , page 18,
    • For the first time in history, new warship crews are virtually “prefabricated” by modern methods of fitting the gob to the job.
  • * 1948' June, Fred B. Barton, ''Mending Broken '''Gobs'' , ''The Rotarian , 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.
  • (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
  • * 1930 , Engineering and Mining Journal , Volume 130, 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-up

    Verb

  • To gather into a lump.
  • * 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich'', '' , 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.
  • To spit, especially to spit phlegm.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    gobbet

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia gobbet) (en noun)
  • a quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch
  • a lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat
  • * (rfdate) Wyclif
    • [He] had broken the stocks to small gobbets .
  • an extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, translation or discussion in an examination.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter.
  • To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
    • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)

    References

    * * Cardiff University * Glasgow University