From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgobgob1 /ɡɒb $ ɡɑːb/ noun [countable] informal 1 British EnglishHBBODY an impolite word for someone’s mouth Jean told him to shut his gob. She’s always stuffing her gob with food.2 LIQUIDa mass of something wet and stickygob of There’s a gob of gum on my chair.3 → gobs
Examples from the Corpus
gob• It was so right for Darla to be the one who got a gob in her hand.• But there are great gobs of money to be made, and this municipality needs all of it.• But the smile wasn't the only thing on her gob, was it?• These all required expensive hardware, and ate up huge gobs of memory.• He propelled a prodigious gob of spit toward the window of the van.• The sauce from Mr Bishop's tomato ketchup bottles had been emptied out in great red gobs or smeared over the cupboards.• Sticks of nothing in your gob.gob of• There's a gob of gum on my chair.• The Johnsons must have gobs of money.gobgob2 verb (gobbed, gobbing) [intransitive] British English informalHBH to blow a small amount of liquid out of your mouth SYN spit→ See Verb tableOrigin gob (1300-1400) Old French gobe “large piece of food”, from gobet; → GOBBET 