Robbed vs Gobbed - What's the difference?
robbed | gobbed |
(rob)
(lb) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
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(lb) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
To deprive (of).
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
To burgle.
*2008 , National Public Radio, All Things Considered , Sept 4, 2008
*:Her house was robbed .
(lb) To commit robbery.
(lb) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 28, author=Tom Rostance, work=BBC Sport
, title= The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.
(gob)
(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 verbs the difference between robbed and gobbed
is that robbed is (rob) while gobbed is (gob).robbed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*rob
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Etymology 1
(etyl) robben, from (etyl) (compare English reave). More at (l).Verb
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Derived terms
* on the rob * rob Peter to pay Paul * robber * robbery * rob somebody blind * rob the cradleEtymology 2
(etyl); compare (etyl) rob, (etyl) rob, robbo, (etyl) robe, arrobe, and similar (etyl) and (etyl) words.Alternative forms
* rhob, rohobNoun
(-)Anagrams
* bor * bro * orb 1000 English basic words ----gobbed
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Verb
(head)gob
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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.