Gobbet
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɡɒbɪt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gobbet is a noun meaning A quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch.
Meaning
A quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch.
More Meanings
- A lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat.
- An extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, discussion, or translation in an examination.
- (transitive) To splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter.
- (transitive) To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
Example Sentences
The gobbet – the largest piece of meat served in hash or soup – was about the size of a man's thumb.
This bottom was littered with great gobbets of flesh, most of which was in the last state of putridity.
BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets.
The bullets that hit him […] burst the bared head into splinters. Scalp, bones and brain gobbeted the jeep as the dead boy screwed and fell sideways.
Word Forms
- gobbets
- gobbeting
- gobbeted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include booger, spooge, glug, gobshell, sploop, gobful.
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