Wad vs Gobbet - What's the difference?
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Wad is a related term of gobbet. As verbs the difference between wad and gobbet is that wad is third person singular of 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.
wad Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)
Noun
( en noun)
An amorphous, compact mass.
- Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
A substantial pile (normally of money).
- With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan
A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
(slang) A sandwich.
(vulgar, slang) An ejaculate of semen.
(mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
Derived terms
* (ejaculate) blow one's wad, shoot one's wad
See also
* (Wad)
Verb
( wadd)
To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
- She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
(Ulster) To wager.
To insert or force a wad into.
- to wad a gun
To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
- to wad a cloak
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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
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* Cardiff University
* Glasgow University
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