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Gob   Listen
noun
Gob  n.  
1.
A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful. (Low)
2.
The mouth. (Prov. Eng.or Low)





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"Gob" Quotes from Famous Books



... feet—O. K. The last will hurt plenty, but we've got to get some of it into your lungs and we can't do it the hospital way. So when I slap a gob of it over your mouth and nose inhale hard and deep. Just once is all anybody can do, but that's enough. And don't fight. Any ordinary woman I could handle, but I can't handle you fast enough. So if you don't inhale deep I'll have to knock you cold. Otherwise you die of ...
— Subspace Survivors • E. E. Smith
... huge gob of flesh, which is perhaps animated dimly by some spark of humanity smouldering filthily in a heart cancerous with money-grubbing. His whole character and mode of life stink with poisonous exhalations in my moral nostrils. Nature denounces, in her loud commination service, his clammy hand, ...
— Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series • George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
... to Private McFadden: Be gob, ye're a bad 'un; Now turn out your toes; Yer belt is unhookit Yer cap is on crookit Ye may not be dhrunk, But be jabers, ye look it; Wan-two! Wan-two! Ye monkey faced devil, I'll jolly ye through! Wan-two! Time! Mark! Ye march like ...
— Rhymes of the Rookies • W. E. Christian
... name," howled Bud, who always got angry whenever anybody took liberties with his cognomen. "G-o don't spell Gob, does it? You can't read or spell alongside of me, but you know too much to be of any more use around here. Me and Mr. Riley b'long to the Committee of Safety, an' it's our bounden duty to take chaps like you out in the woods an' lick ye. What ...
— True To His Colors • Harry Castlemon
... great big gob of a man! I dunner what on the face er the yeth Lou Hornsby could 'a' been a-dreamin' about. From the way she's been a-gigglin' aroun' I'd 'a' thought she'd 'a' sot her cap ...
— Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches • Joel Chandler Harris


Words linked to "Gob" :   steersman, lighterman, bosun, cakehole, mouth, clod, Britain, bo's'n, helmsman, pilot, hole, yap, clump, U.K., Jack-tar, United Kingdom, able seaman, UK, crewman, glob, Great Britain, chunk, able-bodied seaman, maw, oral cavity, bargee, deckhand, whaler, bargeman, oral fissure, seafarer, officer, old salt, mariner, trap, roustabout


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