gobbet
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gobbet
- /ˈɡɒbɪt/
Rhymes with -ɒbɪt
Where it comes from
From Middle English gobet, from Middle French gobet (“mouthful, piece”), diminutive of gobe. See gober.
noun gobbets
- A quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch. 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.
- A lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat. The gobbet – the largest piece of meat served in hash or soup – was about the size of a man's thumb.
- An extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, discussion, or translation in an examination. This new status for primary source material in schools was not a permeation down of the gobbet tradition from undergraduate courses. The gobbet functioned as a prompt to an exposition on the context of the extract — the period, the events, the people and ideas referred to in the gobbet.
verb gobbets · gobbeting · gobbeted
- To splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter. 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.
- To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets. Or, did you ever see a dog with a marrowbone in his mouth[…] how prudently he gobbets it: with what affection he breaks it: and with what diligence he sucks it.
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noun chunk of food
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title = {gobbet},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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