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Gobby vs Sobby - What's the difference?

gobby | sobby |

As adjectives the difference between gobby and sobby

is that gobby is marked by the presence of gobs lumps while sobby is very sad; inclined to sob.

As a noun gobby

is an act of fellatio.

gobby

English

Etymology 1

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Adjective

(er)
  • (informal) Marked by the presence of gobs (lumps).
  • * 1898 , Gleanings in bee culture, Volume 26?
    • But if, however, the bees make from it a "gobby" article of comb honey, no one will be quicker to drop it than the Root Co.
  • * 1942 , Frank Roy Fraprie, American photography
    • ...to have a gobby mess of unrelated and meaningless color hung in a metropolitan show...
  • * 1952 , David Harry Walker, The pillar
    • He poured the Argentine stew in a gobby mess on top of the Spam.

    Etymology 2

    . The meaning "inclined to talk" is probably related to (m).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (British, slang, said of a person) Inclined to talk in a loud and offensive manner.

    • Noun

    (gobbies)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) An act of fellatio.
  • * 2004 , John Charalambous, Furies , , ISBN 0702234559, page 164 [http://google.com/books?id=-sUhyF_kJ9AC&pg=PA164&dq=gobby]:
    • In year eight, crouched in a playground cubby, she gave Ryan Glover a gobby . Brief, busy, urgent. Then afterwards, slipping it back into his pants, he said thank you.
  • * 2007 , Joe Lewis, The Insurmountable Malaise of Man , (self-published), ISBN 9781847992444, page 278 [http://google.com/books?id=myJ8WLBqDOcC&pg=PA278&dq=gobby]:
    • He bustles me into a cubicle and locks the door.
  • *:"I'm not really in the mood for a gobby ," I slur, and laugh girlishly at my joke as I unzip my fly, "but if you insist..."
  • * 2007 July 17, Gordon Lightfoot III <GordonLightfootIII@gmail.com>, "A Question for Darkfalz (colgate total)", message-ID <1184667039.997405.66870@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, aus.tv , Usenet [http://groups.google.com/group/aus.tv/msg/4b6941df25de4a28]:
    • Have you seen the Colgate Total ad with the female Indian dentist? Would you let her give you a gobby ? I would. She has a perdy mouth.
    Synonyms
    * (fellatio) (l)

    References

    * Dictionary.com: "adj, -bier, -biest, informal, loudmouthed and offensive" * Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, 2 edition, ISBN 0304366366: "adj., late 19C+, talkative"

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "gobby")

    References

    * A Glossary of Words used in the County of Chester (1886), by Robert Holland, page 9: "April gawby (W. Ches.), April gobby (Mid-Ches.), April gob (Macclesfield), s. an April fool" * The English Dialect Dictionary, vol. 1, A-C (1898), edited by Joseph Wright, published by Henry Frowde, Amen Corner, etc, page 66, keyword "April": "APRIL [...] ·gobby, ·gowk, ·noddy, various names for an April fool" * Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, 2 edition, ISBN 0304366366: "n., late 19C-1920s, 1. a sailor, 2 a coastguardsman" * Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, 2 edition, ISBN 0304366366: "n., 1920s, US, a socially unacceptable person"

    sobby

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very sad; inclined to sob
  • *{{quote-book, year=1903, author=George Horace Lorimer, title=Old Gorgon Graham, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It began, 'Where is my wandering boy to-night?' and by the time she was through I was feeling so mushy and sobby that I put a five instead of a one into the plate by mistake. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Sewell Ford, title=Wilt Thou Torchy, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby . }}
  • (by extension) Dripping wet
  • *{{quote-book, year=1882, author=Carlton McCarthy, title=Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Nobody knows who he was; but no matter how wet the leaves, how sobby the twigs, no matter if there was no fire in a mile of the camp, that fellow could start one. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1902, author=Ellen Glasgow, title=The Battle Ground, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The woman served him sullenly, placing some sobby biscuits and a piece of cold bacon on his plate, and pouring out a glass of buttermilk with a vicious thrust of the pitcher. }}

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