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Hobbed vs Gobbed - What's the difference?

hobbed | gobbed |

As verbs the difference between hobbed and gobbed

is that hobbed is past tense of hob while gobbed is past tense of gob.

hobbed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (hob)

    • hob

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
  • (obsolete) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
    • (Smart)
  • (British) The top cooking surface on a cooker. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
  • *1913 , Lawrence, Sons and Lovers,
  • *:And the first sound in the house was the bang, bang of the poker against the raker, as Morel smashed the remainder of the coal to make the kettle, which was filled and left on the hob , finally boil.
  • A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits
  • A male ferret.
  • The hub of a wheel.
    • (Washington)
    Synonyms
    * (cooking surface) cooktop, stovetop, range (US)

    Verb

    (hobb) (Gear cutting) (Hobbing)
  • To create (a gear) by cutting with a hob.
  • To engage in the process of cutting gears with a hob.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (Hob) (a diminutive of (Robin), an (etyl) diminutive of (Robert)), through its connection with Robin Goodfellow and (later) the devil. Compare (hobgoblin); see (robin).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) a fairy; a sprite; an elf
    • From elves, hobs , and fairies, Defend us, good Heaven! — Beaumont and Fletcher.
  • (label) a countryman; a rustic or yokel
    • (Nares)
    Derived terms
    * play hob with, raise hob

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    gobbed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gob)

    • gob

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
  • * 1952 , The Glass Industry , Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company, 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.
  • (countable, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
    • 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.
  • (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
    • He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
  • (US, military, slang) A sailor.
  • * 1944' November, ''Fitting the '''Gob to the Job'', '' , page 18,
    • For the first time in history, new warship crews are virtually “prefabricated” by modern methods of fitting the gob to the job.
  • * 1948' June, Fred B. Barton, ''Mending Broken '''Gobs'' , ''The Rotarian , 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.
  • (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
  • * 1930 , Engineering and Mining Journal , Volume 130, 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-up

    Verb

  • To gather into a lump.
  • * 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich'', '' , 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.
  • To spit, especially to spit phlegm.

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