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- noun Plural form of
gobbet .
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Examples
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But the cracks had, if anything, closed a little and the puddling clay clung to the tyres, then shot up in little gobbets of mud as if the wheels were threshing the earth.
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The president is rightly critiqued from the left for ignoring huge gobbets of financial theft, for not cutting away at the Pentagon's heft, for wars that leave countries completely bereft.
John Feffer: Ten Little Republicans John Feffer 2011
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Given the way that the two networks are hacking each other into bloody gobbets to claim the #2 spot in cable news, they may have already.
Anti-Tea Party Susan Roesgen out at CNN. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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I am the potato specialist, so I spend several hours trying to tease gobbets of goose fat under the skin.
Harry Dalmeny Trades the Gavel for a Toboggan William Lyons 2011
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The president is rightly critiqued from the left for ignoring huge gobbets of financial theft, for not cutting away at the Pentagon's heft, for wars that leave countries completely bereft.
John Feffer: Ten Little Republicans John Feffer 2011
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It looked promising too: urbane, humorous men on a sofa; spiky badinage; a sense of oblique, even oddly familiar satire, in particular – hang on a minute – from the figure seated centre stage dispensing gobbets of delicately stitched football joke-chat.
Gary Lineker's jokes have you itching for a touch of punk from Africa | Barney Ronay 2012
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A mesmerizing combination of Dark Chocolate ganache, curry from the mysterious East, and gobbets of chili-laced mango.
Places You Haunt stringmonkey 2009
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You're avid – greedy – hungry – for great gobbets of good writing.
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The use of the fork made possible the delicate slice as against the gobbets of meat of the century before, and also, the fork promoted cleanliness at the table.
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The president is rightly critiqued from the left for ignoring huge gobbets of financial theft, for not cutting away at the Pentagon's heft, for wars that leave countries completely bereft.
John Feffer: Ten Little Republicans John Feffer 2011
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