Gob

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  • noun. The mouth.
  • noun. A small mass or lump.
  • noun. A large quantity.
  • noun. A sailor.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The mouth.
  • noun. A mouthful; hence, a little mass or collection; a dab; a lump.
  • noun. In coal-mining, the refuse or waste material from the workings in a mine; attle. It is used to pack the goaves, so as to support the roof.
  • In coal-mining, to pack away refuse so as to get rid of it and at the same time to help to keep the workings from caving in.
  • To brag; boast.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Same as goaf.
  • noun. Same as sailor.
  • noun. A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful.
  • noun. The mouth.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A lump of soft or sticky material.
  • noun. The mouth.
  • noun. Saliva or phlegm.
  • noun. A sailor.
  • noun. Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
  • verb. To gather into a lump.
  • verb. To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. informal terms for the mouth
  • noun. a lump of slimy stuff
  • noun. a man who serves as a sailor
  • Word Usage
    "So what I'm saying is there were vast parts of the mine with what we call gob that had had already been caved in."
    cross-reference
    to gob up  
    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ball  chunk  clod  clump  glob  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bob  Cobb  Job  Punjab  Rob  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blob  dab  dribble  drool  fleck  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    goaf  sailor  
    verb-form
    gobbing  gobs