gob
part of speech
noun (a gob, gobs); verb (gob, gobs, gobbed, gobbing — slang, rare)
meaning for a pupil
1) (UK, slang, rude) Your mouth: Shut your gob! tree →
2) (slang) A lump or blob of something soft and wet, like a gob of spit or a gob of glue. tree →
3) (US, informal) Gobs of something means a lot of it: gobs of money. tree →
4) (UK, slang) To gob means to spit. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A place where Israel fought the Philistines in David's time. Its exact location is not known. In the primary lessons: Heard in everyday British, Irish and Australian talk and in stories with rough characters; not polite. Phrases: shut your gob, gobsmacked (amazed), gobstopper (a very big hard sweet), a gob of spit.
examples
- And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant. (Prophets 2SA.21.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. (Prophets 2SA.21.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- Shut your gob, you're giving the game away! tree →
- There was a gob of chewing gum under the desk. tree →
- He's got a big gob, he tells everyone everything. tree →
- I was gobsmacked when I won the prize. tree →
- Grandad bought me a gobstopper at the seaside. tree →
- They've got gobs of money, they live in a mansion. tree →
- Don't gob on the pavement, it's disgusting. tree →
note
Rude and informal: do not say Shut your gob to a teacher. Gobsmacked (very surprised) is friendly slang and fine with friends. Gobstopper is a sweet, not rude at all. Gob is not a short form of goblin.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «gob» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.