Got vs Gob - What's the difference?
got | gob |
(get)
(British, NZ)
(Southern US, with to) ; have (to).
* 1971 , Carol King and Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, Tapestry , Ode Records
(Southern US, UK, slang) have
(countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
* 1952 , The Glass Industry , Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company,
(countable, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
(uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
(US, military, slang) A sailor.
* 1944' November, ''Fitting the '''Gob to the Job'', '' ,
* 1948' June, Fred B. Barton, ''Mending Broken '''Gobs'' , ''The Rotarian ,
(uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
* 1930 , Engineering and Mining Journal , Volume 130,
To gather into a lump.
* 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich'', '' ,
To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
As a proper noun got
is god.As a noun gob is
(countable) a lump of soft or sticky material.As a verb gob is
to gather into a lump.got
English
Verb
(head)- We got the last bus home.
- By that time we'd got very cold.
- I've got two children.
- How many children have you got ?
- I can't go out tonight, I've got to study for my exams.
- I got to go study.
- We got to ride to clean up the streets / For our wives and our daughters!
- They got a new car.
- He got a lot of nerve.
Usage notes
* (past participle of get) The second sentence literally means "At some time in the past I got (obtained) two children", but in "have got" constructions like this, where "got" is used in the sense of "obtained", the sense of obtaining is lost, becoming merely one of possessing, and the sentence is in effect just a more colloquial way of saying "I have two children". Similarly, the third sentence is just a more colloquial way of saying "How many children do you have?" * (past participle of get) The American and archaic British usage of the verb conjugates as get-got-gotten or as get-got-got depending on the meaning (see for details), whereas the modern British usage of the verb has mostly lost this distinction and conjugates as get-got-got in most cases. * (expressing obligation) "Got" is a filler word here with no obvious grammatical or semantic function. "I have to study for my exams" has the same meaning. It is often stressed in speech: "You've just got to see this."Synonyms
* gotta (informal )Statistics
*gob
English
Noun
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.
- 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.
- He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
page 18,
- For the first time in history, new warship crews are virtually “prefabricated” by modern methods of fitting the gob to the job.
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.
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-upVerb
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.