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Gobbet vs Gobbety - What's the difference?

gobbet | gobbety |

As a noun gobbet

is a quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch.

As a verb gobbet

is to splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter.

As an adjective gobbety is

like gobbets; having the texture of gobbets.

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

    gobbety

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like gobbets; having the texture of gobbets.
  • * 1984 , John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick
    • that's the way the roundworm feels when a big gobbety mess of half-digested steak or moo goo gai pan comes sloshing down to him.
  • * 2006 , Stephen King, Cell
    • the pen had made a grinding sound against the bone of the old man's eyesocket when it finally let go, and there had been a loose, gobbety plopping sound as something fell from the bent tip of the pen's steel nib onto the blotter.