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Hunk vs Gobbet - What's the difference?

hunk | gobbet | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between hunk and gobbet

is that hunk is a large or dense piece of something while 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.

hunk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large or dense piece of something.
    • a hunk of metal
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter IX
    • "Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread."
  • (informal) A sexually attractive boy or man, especially one who is muscular.
  • (computing) A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
  • (US, slang) A honyock.

    • Synonyms

    * (large or dense piece) chunk, lump, piece * (sexually attractive boy) beefcake

    Derived terms

    * hunky

    See also

    * bohunk

    References

    * *

    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