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noun

Gob n. (Mining) Same as Goaf.

Gob n.

A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful. (Low)

The mouth. (Prov. Eng.or Low)

Gob n. Same as sailor. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Gob'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gob" Quotes from Famous Books

... GAB, or GOB. The mouth. Gift of the gab; a facility of speech, nimble tongued eloquence. To blow the ...

— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.

... watched the unloading with eager and experienced eyes. As Barney put it, "Makes me feel like some shipwrecked gob on a desert island when he sees ...

— Lost In The Air • Roy J. Snell

... is ane, callet Clement's Hob, Fra ilk puir wyfe reifis the wob, And all the lave, Quhatever they haife, The devil recave Thairfoir his gob. ...

— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott

... "my dear Pattieson, make too much use of the gob box; they patter too much (an elegant phraseology which Dick had learned while painting the scenes of an itinerant company of players); there is nothing in whole pages but mere ...

— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott

... a hunch, Leverage, that a great gob of sensational publicity, right now, will be of inestimable help. Meanwhile let's get busy before either the coroner or the ...

— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen

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