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▪ I. flob, n. Brit. slang.
Brit. |flɒb|, U.S. |flɑb|
[‹ flob v.2]
A piece of spittle and mucus that has been spat out; (as a mass noun) phlegm, spittle.
1991Guardian 17 Aug. 22/4 A group of spotty grebos admiring each other's chrome and planting the odd flob on the asphalt. 1998B. Robinson Peculiar Memories Thomas Penman 64 Before you can flob, you gotta suck in, you can only get flob from your lungs, and you can't get real flob unless you smoke properly. 2003Q Feb. 72/3 He..received a well-aimed flob to the face.
▪ II. flob, v.|flɒb|
[onomatopœic var. of flop v., indicating a softer movement and duller sound (see flabby).]
intr. To move heavily or clumsily, with a dull heavy sound.
1860Squires & Parsons 196 Fine cock-pheasants, heavy with buck-wheat and maize flobbed up through the branches of the trees, were fired at and flobbed down again. 1882A. S. Gibson Adv. Pig Fam. xxx, How they flobb'd, and how they flopp'd And flounder'd all around!
▪ III. flob, v.2 Brit. slang.
Brit. |flɒb|, U.S. |flɑb|
[Origin uncertain. Perhaps > n.) + -ob (in gob v.3), phonetically respelled.]
intr. To spit.
1977New Musical Express 24 Dec. 17/1 Loping towards the side-stage consol [sic] and flobbing in its general direction. 1989M. Amis London Fields xvi. 312, I mean, you tell your opponent you're going to rip his ear off and flob in the hole. 2001B. Hatch Internat. Gooseberry 41 Colin Hare's just flobbed in my eye. |