Gobbet vs Gibbet - What's the difference?
gobbet | gibbet |
a quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch
a lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat
* (rfdate) Wyclif
an extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, translation or discussion in an examination.
To splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter.
To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
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* An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1728
, chapter = The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Solider's Fortune
, title = The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway
, volume = 2
, first = Thomas
, last = Otway
, authorlink = Thomas Otway
, location = London
, page = 37
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=yF1AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA37
, passage = No, had every Commandment but a Gibbet belonging to it, I ?hould not have had four King's Evidences to-day ?wear impudently I was a Papi?t, when I was never at Ma?s yet ?ince I was born, nor indeed at any other Wor?hip the?e twenty Years.
}}
The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet.
To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn.
In transitive terms the difference between gobbet and gibbet
is that gobbet is to swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets while gibbet is to expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn.gobbet
English
Noun
(wikipedia gobbet) (en noun)- [He] had broken the stocks to small gobbets .
Verb
(en verb)References
Cardiff University*
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