Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A piece or chunk, especially of raw meat.
- n. A bit or morsel: a diary containing gobbets of useful information.
- n. A small amount of liquid; a drop.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. a quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch
- n. a lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat
- n. an extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, translation or discussion in an examination.
- v. To splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter.
- v. To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A mouthful; a lump; a small piece.
- transitive v. To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To swallow in large masses or mouthfuls; gobble.
- To gut (fish).
- n. A mouthful; a morsel; a lump; apart; a fragment; apiece.
- n. A block of stone.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a lump or chunk of raw meat
Etymologies
Examples
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Rytlock spit from the top of the wall and watched the gobbet fall a hundred feet down before smearing.
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Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground.
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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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Or a gobbet of spit landing on another woman's face before she is hit, hard, in the stomach.
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He coughs up a stringy gobbet but soon settles down to have his fill.
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Go on, hold your nose and reread this gobbet of smug drivel.
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No backbencher hit the target, not even Peter Tapsell whose question rambled on like a gobbet of Gibbon.
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This mythic rustic food is presented as a single gobbet of flesh with a matchstick of bone sticking up as a handle -- letting you pop the thing, with its crisp, bird's-nest coating, into your mouth, but only after you've dredged it through teardrops of garlic cream and parsley purée.
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In at least one of the exams (the course ran for 3 years), a section of the paper was a gobbet test on part of the Camilla-gate tapes ...
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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