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Jobbed vs Gobbed - What's the difference?

jobbed | gobbed |

As verbs the difference between jobbed and gobbed

is that jobbed is (job) while gobbed is (gob).

jobbed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (job)

    • job

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A task.
  • * 1996 , (Tom Cruise) in the movie (Jerry Maguire)
    • ''And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
  • An economic role for which a person is paid.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
    • , title= Cronies and capitols , passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
  • (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
  • (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
  • A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
  • A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
  • Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
  • A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

    • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "job": easy, hard, poor, good, great, excellent, decent, low-paying, steady, stable, secure, challenging, demanding, rewarding, boring, thankless, stressful, horrible, lousy, satisfying, industrial, educational, academic.

    Derived terms

    * blow job * good job * job center * job queue * poor job

    Verb

    (jobb)
  • To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
  • * Moore
    • Authors of all work, to job for the season.
  • To work as a jobber.
  • To take the loss.
  • (trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
  • (transitive, often, with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
    • We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.
  • To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • And judges job , and bishops bite the town.
  • To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
    • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)
  • To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
    • (Moxon)
  • To hire or let in periods of service.
    • to job a carriage
    (Thackeray)

    Derived terms

    * blowjob * bob-a-job * boob job * desk job * good job * handjob * jobber * jobless * job of work * job-seeker * jobsware * job title * joe job * nose job * paint job * toe job * rim job

    See also

    * employment * work * labour

    Anagrams

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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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