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gob
English
Etymology
From Middle English gobben, gabben (“to drink greedily”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of Middle English globben (“to gulp down”), related to Middle English gulpen (“to gulp”); or alternatively related to French gober (“swallow, gulp”), from Irish and/or Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, bill”), from Proto-Celtic *gobbos. See also gobbet.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: g?b, IPA(key): /??b/
- (General American) enPR: g?b, IPA(key): /??b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Noun
gob (countable and uncountable, plural gobs)
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- 1952, The Glass Industry, Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company, page 309,
- These inventors have discovered that gobs may be fed at widely spaced times without allowing the glass to flow during the interval but instead flushes[sic] out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.
- 1952, The Glass Industry, Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company, page 309,
- (countable, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
- Synonyms: cakehole, face, mush, trap
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- Synonyms: saliva, spit, sputum
- (US, military, slang) A sailor.
- 1944 November, Fitting the Gob to the Job, Popular Mechanics, page 18,
- For the first time in history, new warship crews are virtually “prefabricated” by modern methods of fitting the gob to the job.
- 1948 June, Fred B. Barton, Mending Broken Gobs, The Rotarian, page 22,
- Taking a safe average of 2,000 rehabilitated young gobs a year, that?s a total of 100,000 years of salvaged manhood, a target worth shooting at.
- 1944 November, Fitting the Gob to the Job, Popular Mechanics, page 18,
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
- 1930, Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 130, page 330,
- This consisted in wheeling gob back to the most distant part of the stope and filling up the sets right up to the roof.
- 1930, Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 130, page 330,
- (US, regional) A whoopee pie.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
gob (third-person singular simple present gobs, present participle gobbing, simple past and past participle gobbed)
- To gather into a lump.
- 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich, Field & Stream, page 60,
- I liked to gob up two or three worms on a snelled hook, pinch three or four split shot onto the leader, and plunk it into the dark water.
- 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich, Field & Stream, page 60,
- To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
- (mining, intransitive) To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.
Translations
Anagrams
- BOG, bog
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish gop, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“mouth”) (compare French gober (“gulp down”) and gobelet (“goblet”) from Gaulish) from Proto-Indo-European *?eb?- (“jaw, mouth”); compare jowl from Old English ??afl; German Kiefer (“jaw”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??b?/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /??b?/
Noun
gob m (genitive singular goib, nominative plural goba)
- beak, bill (of a bird etc.)
- tip, point, projection
- pointy nose
- nib
- (colloquial) mouth
Declension
Derived terms
- gobadán
- gob siosúir
Verb
gob (present analytic gobann, future analytic gobfaidh, verbal noun gobadh, past participle gobtha)
- (transitive, intransitive) peck (ar (“at”)) (as a bird etc.)
- (intransitive) project, stick out, up
Conjugation
Mutation
Further reading
- "gob" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “gob” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “gob” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish gop, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eb?- (“jaw, mouth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kop/
Noun
gob m (genitive singular guib, plural guib or goban)
- bill, beak, nib, tip
- point
- mouth
- garrulity
- babble
Derived terms
Mutation
References
- “gob” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
Slovene
Noun
gob
- genitive dual/plural of goba
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hunk
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /h??k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
Probably borrowed from West Flemish hunke (“hunk; chunk”), of obscure origin. Probably from an earlier *humke, *humpke, a diminutive related to Dutch homp (“hunk; lump”), English hump, equivalent to hump +? -kin. The sense of an attractive man is recorded in Australian slang in 1941, in jive talk in 1945.
Noun
hunk (plural hunks)
- A large or dense piece of something.
- a hunk of metal
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter IX
- "Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread."
- (informal) A sexually attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
- (computing) A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
- (US, slang) A honyock.
Synonyms
- (large or dense piece): chunk, lump, piece
- (sexually attractive boy): beefcake
Derived terms
- hunky
Translations
See also
- bohunk
Etymology 2
Dutch honk (“the base in a game”)
Noun
hunk
- (US) A goal or base in children's games.
References
- “hunk” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “hunk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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