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See also: göb and gøb

Translingual

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Symbol

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gob

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Playero.

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English gobbe (also Middle English gobet), from Old French gobet, gobe (“lump, mouthful”), from Transalpine Gaulish *gobbo- (“neb, muzzle”).

Noun

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gob (countable and uncountable, plural gobs)

  1. (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.
  2. (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
    Synonyms: saliva, spit, sputum
    He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
  3. (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
  4. (in the plural, originally slang) A large amount.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lot
    gobs of money
    • 2026 January 11, Alex Kuczynski, “Her Life Was an Old-Money Dream. It Collapsed in a Moment.”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      The story of “Strangers” is a cliché of well-to-do Manhattan: Husband makes gobs of money. Wife, despite her august educational pedigree, stays at home to raise the kids, relinquishing career and otherwise idling in the make-work realm of school boards and volunteering.
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Verb

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gob (third-person singular simple present gobs, present participle gobbing, simple past and past participle gobbed)

  1. To gather into a lump.
    • 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich, Field & Stream, 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.
  2. (slang, ambitransitive) To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
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Etymology 2

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Probably from Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, mouth”).

Noun

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gob (plural gobs)

  2. (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth. [from 16th c.]
    Synonyms: cakehole, mush, trap; see also Thesaurus: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.
    • 2005, “Tango”, in Public Warning, performed by Lady Sovereign:
      Now washing you will be like washing a goth / All that black lipstick around their gobs
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Etymology 3

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Back-formation from gobbing, or a specified use of Etymology 1, above.

Noun

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gob (plural gobs)

  1. (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
    Coordinate terms: gangue, mullock, tailings
    • 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.
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Verb

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gob (third-person singular simple present gobs, present participle gobbing, simple past and past participle gobbed)

  1. (mining, intransitive) To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.

Etymology 4

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Shortened from gobby or gobshite.

Noun

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gob (plural gobs)

  1. (US, military, slang) A sailor. [from 20th c.]
    • 1918 October 22, Letter of Adlai Stevenson, quoted in John Bartlow Martin, Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976), page 53:
      Well I have taken the oath of allegiance for 4 years service anywhere in the world and am now a real 'gob' in the U. S. Navy.
    • 1928, Hart Crane, letter, 27 April:
      If it weren't for the Fleet I should scarcely be able to endure it. Gobs are always amusing, as you know.
    • 1937, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 94:
      Full-cut, dashing "gob" slacks with back pocket.
    • 1944 November, Fitting the Gob to the Job, Popular Mechanics, 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.
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Etymology 5

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Noun

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gob (plural gobs)

  1. (nautical) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    • 1996, John Mellor, Handling Troubles Afloat:
      To save having to enter the locks at a crawl — not seamanlike in the strong cross-winds we often experienced ― I rigged a quarter-rope as described for stopping her, in addition to a gob-rope that I could immediately haul on to convert the quarter rope into a conventional stern line to hold her alongside after we had stopped.
    • 2009, Jeffrey Sleisinger, Shiphandling With Tugs:
      The towing point can be a bullnose up forward, a tow bitt aft, a staple, a towing hook, or a gob line.

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Anagrams

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish gop,[1] from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“mouth”) (compare French gober (“gulp down”) and gobelet (“goblet”) from Gaulish) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵebʰ- (“jaw, mouth”); compare Russian зоб (zob, “goitre”), jowl from Old English ċēafl; German Kiefer (“jaw”).

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Noun

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gob m (genitive singular goib, nominative plural goba)

  1. beak, bill (of a bird etc.)
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127:
      tā gob fadə eŕ ə grøtəx.
      [Tá gob fada ar an gcrotach.]
      The curlew has a long beak.
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127:
      tā gobī nə l̄axə bŭī.
      [Tá goba na lacha buí.]
      The ducks’ bills are yellow.
  2. tip, point, projection
  3. pointy nose
  4. nib
  5. (colloquial) mouth, gob
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127:
      dūn də ʒob!
      [Dún do ghob!]
      Shut your gob!

Declension

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Declension of gob (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative gob goba
vocative a ghoib a ghoba
genitive goib gob
dative gob goba
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an gob na goba
genitive an ghoib na ngob
dative leis an ngob
don ghob 		leis na goba

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Descendants

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  • → English: gob

Verb

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gob (present analytic gobann, future analytic gobfaidh, verbal noun gobadh, past participle gobtha)

  1. (ambitransitive) peck (ar (“at”)) (as a bird etc.)
  2. (intransitive) project, stick out, up

Conjugation

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Conjugation of gob (first conjugation – A)
indicative singular plural direct relative autonomous
first second third first second third
present gobaim gobann tú;
gobair† 		gobann sé, sí gobaimid; gobann muid gobann sibh gobann siad;
gobaid† 		a ghobann; a ghobas gobtar
past ghob mé; ghobas ghob tú; ghobais ghob sé, sí ghobamar; ghob muid ghob sibh; ghobabhair ghob siad; ghobadar a ghob gobadh
past habitual ghobainn /
gobainn‡ 		ghobtá /
gobtᇠ		ghobadh sé, sí /
gobadh sé, sí‡ 		ghobaimis; ghobadh muid /
gobaimis‡; gobadh muid‡ 		ghobadh sibh /
gobadh sibh‡ 		ghobaidís; ghobadh siad /
gobaidís‡; gobadh siad‡ 		a ghobadh ghobtaí /
gobtaí‡
singular plural direct relative autonomous
first second third first second third
future gobfaidh mé;
gobfad 		gobfaidh tú;
gobfair† 		gobfaidh sé, sí gobfaimid;
gobfaidh muid 		gobfaidh sibh gobfaidh siad;
gobfaid† 		a ghobfaidh; a ghobfas gobfar
conditional ghobfainn /
gobfainn‡ 		ghobfá /
gobfᇠ		ghobfadh sé, sí /
gobfadh sé, sí‡ 		ghobfaimis; ghobfadh muid /
gobfaimis‡; gobfadh muid‡ 		ghobfadh sibh /
gobfadh sibh‡ 		ghobfaidís; ghobfadh siad /
gobfaidís‡; gobfadh siad‡ 		a ghobfadh ghobfaí /
gobfaí‡
subjunctive singular plural direct relative autonomous
first second third first second third
present go ngoba mé;
go ngobad† 		go ngoba tú;
go ngobair† 		go ngoba sé, sí go ngobaimid;
go ngoba muid 		go ngoba sibh go ngoba siad;
go ngobaid† 		— go ngobtar
past dá ngobainn dá ngobtá dá ngobadh sé, sí dá ngobaimis;
dá ngobadh muid 		dá ngobadh sibh dá ngobaidís;
dá ngobadh siad 		— dá ngobtaí
imperative singular plural direct relative autonomous
first second third first second third
— gobaim gob gobadh sé, sí gobaimis gobaigí;
gobaidh† 		gobaidís — gobtar
past participle gobtha
verbal noun gobadh

† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form

Mutation

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Mutated forms of gob
radical lenition eclipsis
gob ghob ngob

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 38, page 21
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 370, page 125

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish gop,[1] from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵebʰ- (“jaw, mouth”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gob m (genitive singular guib, plural guib or goban)

  1. bill, beak, nib, tip
    duilleag na ghob ― a leaf in its bill
    gob circe ― a hen's bill
    gob pinn ― nib of a pen
    gob na stocainn ― a tip of the sock
  2. point
    gob an rubha ― the point of the headland
    gob na snàthaide ― the point of the needle
  3. mouth
    gob na cùiteige ― the mouth of the whiting
  4. garrulity
  5. babble

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Descendants

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  • → English: gob

Mutation

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Mutation of gob
radical lenition
gob ghob

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “gob”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925), A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

Slovene

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Noun

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gob

  1. genitive dual/plural of goba
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