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.
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Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground.
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Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground.
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Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground.
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Rytlock spat a gobbet of blood, which spattered the ground.
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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 spit from the top of the wall and watched the gobbet fall a hundred feet down before smearing.
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Rytlock spit from the top of the wall and watched the gobbet fall a hundred feet down before smearing.
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