Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A piece or chunk, especially of raw meat.
- noun A bit or morsel.
- noun A small amount of liquid; a drop.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To swallow in large masses or mouthfuls; gobble.
- To gut (fish).
- noun A mouthful; a morsel; a lump; apart; a fragment; apiece.
- noun A block of stone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mouthful; a lump; a small piece.
- transitive verb Low To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
quantity of liquid, often in a stickyblotch - noun a
lump orchunk of something, especially of raw meat - noun an extract of
text , orimage (especially aquotation ), provided as a context foranalysis ,translation ordiscussion in an examination. - verb transitive To
splash with small quantities of liquid; tospatter . - verb transitive To
swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lump or chunk of raw meat
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It's too detailed to go into here, but one gobbet of fascinating info Peyotitlan served up was the apocryphal etymology of "gringo": "The US army wore green uniforms and when the locals saw them, simply said 'Green, go!' telling them to go away."
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After revealing the gestation periods of cows and sheep, the third gobbet of knowledge it coughed up was that the chicken must have indeed preceded the egg.
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Rytlock spit from the top of the wall and watched the gobbet fall a hundred feet down before smearing.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Rytlock spit from the top of the wall and watched the gobbet fall a hundred feet down before smearing.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Rytlock spit from the top of the wall and watched the gobbet fall a hundred feet down before smearing.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Rytlock spit from the top of the wall and watched the gobbet fall a hundred feet down before smearing.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
Louises commented on the word gobbet
He was still on his knees, propped up by the javelin, arms hanging inert, eyes half-closed, a thickened gobbet of dark blood hanging from his open mouth. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 30, 2012