gob

«gob» in Mova's school dictionary: Your mouth: Shut your gob! — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

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

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

• 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

• Bit of a gob on him, mind» (a gob is a mouth; he talks too much and too rudely).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gob» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.