单词 | gob |
释义 | gobn.1 1. a. A mass, lump, or heap; in later use often with reference to immaterial things. Frequently in plural: heaps, loads. Formerly also: †a lump or piece which has been cut from something; cf. gobbet n. 1a, 1b (obsolete). colloquial and regional in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [noun] > a dense or solid thing or body clota1000 goba1382 massa1382 gobbetc1384 clustera1387 lumpa1400 grume1555 solidity1604 concrescence1610 concression1613 concretion1646 ponderant1656 condensation1665 clumper1673 clue1674 solid1698 clump1699 wodge1847 density1858 boulder1861 doorstop1967 swadge1968 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xl. 12 Who heeng vp with thre fingris the gobbe [altered to heuynesse; L. molem] of the erthe. 1587 G. Gifford Disc. Subtill Pract. Deuilles iii. sig. C2 What maketh the soot to fal downe by lumps & gobs out of the chimney, but the moist ayre against rayne doth loosen it? 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) iii. lxxxii. 481 Those gobbes and lumps [of wood] which are cut by edge-tooles..doe hardly and with great difficultie yeeld anie oyle. 1675 T. Brooks Paradice Opened Gen. Ep. sig. ***4 Their noses, lips, ears, hands and feet were cut off; and they, as Sacrifices, cut in gobbes. 1823 N.-Y. Spectator 16 Dec. What a big gob o' plums! 1851 J. J. Hooper Widow Rugby's Husb. 153 If he..is a judge of talent, Smith has got it, and that in great gobs! 1892 J. Barlow Irish Idylls iii. 47 He was a rael gob o good nature. 1920 Printing Art Dec. 327/1 Having acquired this huge gob of contemporary literature,..I ease myself off to my decrepit Mawruss chair and there proceed to absorb, and believe, all I read. 1967 N. Mailer Why are we in Vietnam? iv. 74 Tex in white smoking jacket across the table has brought back gobs of Alaska hunt memory. 2006 Snowboard Jrnl. No. 10. 22/1 Cheap heli-riding. Gobs of snow. b. A lump of a viscous or slimy substance, esp. phlegm; a clot, a blob. Also as a mass noun: phlegm, spittle. Cf. gobbet n. 2b, gobbon n. 2. Now colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > drop of soft and moist substance gobbon1550 gob1558 blob1725 dab1749 slobber1857 glob1900 slob1928 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos iii. sig. H.iij v Belching out the gubbes of blood [L. saniem eructans]. 1668 E. Maynwaring Treat. Consumptions 86 The Spittle viscous, tough, or brought up in gobs. 1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery vi. 59 He [sc. a horse]..throws out of his nose and mouth great gobs of white phlegm. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Oyster A gob of thick phlegm. 1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 93/1 They all spit; and as the gob plumps on the carpet, Jonathan feels that he is free. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad vii. 65 Suggestive of a ‘gob’ of mud on the end of a shingle. 1911 G. Morris Yellow Men & Gold xx. 169 Coughing, snuffling, hawking, and spitting great gobs of phlegm. 1945 Flying Mag. Oct. 94/1 A pistonlike operation expels gobs of burning goo to a distance of 25 yards. 1967 J. Orton Erpingham Camp viii, in Compl. Plays (1976) 300 Gob all over my carnation. Disgusting. 2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 131 Then I realised. It was... it was brains! Great gobs of it, splattered all over the wall. c. Glass-making. A lump (esp. of defined volume) of molten glass, that is used to make a single bottle, jar, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > molten glass parison1832 bullion-point1881 gob1907 gathering1908 gather1934 1907 R. K. Duncan Chem. Commerce vi. 110 There are..mechanisms that with ceaseless celerity jab the gobs of glass into a multitude of objects. 1925 F. W. Hodkin & A. Cousen Textbk. Glass Technol. xxxii. 427 This plunger, moving vertically with a reciprocating motion, serves to form and deliver gobs of suitable size and shape. 1941 C. J. Phillips Glass ix. 191 As each section passes a feeding station served by a gob feeder, a gob of glass is dropped into the press mold and pressed into a parison. 2008 Independent 22 Nov. (Traveller section) 6/1 Glassblowers..demonstrate, with blowpipe and ‘gob’ of molten glass, how their forebears fashioned rudimentary vases and decanters. 2. A large sum of money; esp. in gob of money, †gob of gold. Now chiefly U.S. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > large sum pounda1225 ransom?a1300 fother14.. gob1542 mint1579 king's ransomc1590 abomination1604 coda1680 a pretty (also fine, fair, etc.) penny1710 plunk1767 big money1824 pot1856 big one?1863 a small fortune1874 four figures1893 poultice1902 parcel1903 bundle1905 pretty1909 real money1918 stack1919 packet1922 heavy sugar1926 motza1936 big bucks1941 bomb1958 wedge1977 megadollars1980 squillion1986 bank1995 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. Socrates §31. 1. 14 A bodye..to whom hath happened some good goubbe of money [L. cui pecuniae nonnihil obtigit]. 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Hvj He to whome, God hercules did bringe, A gubbe of goulde. a1601 T. Nashe Choise of Valentines in Wks. (1958) 406 And tenne good gobbs I will unto thee tell Of golde or siluer. 1670 W. Blake Ladies Charity School-house Roll of Highgate 56 Now pray, dear Madam, speak or write to my Lady out of hand, and tell her how it is with us; and if she will subscribe a good gob. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccxcvi. 257 Dost think I have so Little Wit, as to Part with such a Gob of Money for God-a-mercy? a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) By ‘such a gob of money’, our countryman [sc. L'Estrange] must have meant, as we still mean, by the very same phrase, a good round sum. 1914 Steam Machinery Jan. 4/1 We will nevermore perform an operation for appendicitis unless it is absolutely necessary—to get another large gob of gold before the patient kicks in. 1956 Life 26 Mar. 51/2 Suddenly there was a gob of money up for grabs. 2014 A. Gill Ladies of Seminary xviii. 99 I can't imagine he didn't do what he was supposed to do with changing his will and designating me a gob of money. 3. a. A lump or large mouthful of food, esp. of raw or fatty meat. Cf. gobbet n. 3. Chiefly U.S. and English regional in later use.Also in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > cut or piece of meat > [noun] > lump of meat gob1558 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. sig. Q.iijv He [sc. Cerberus] gaping wyde his threfold iawes, All hungry caught that gubbe [L. offam]. 1581 J. Derricke Image Irelande ii. sig. Fij Not shiues of bread I meane..But gobbes of fleshe. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida ii. sig. C4v O that the stomack of this queasie age Digestes, or brookes such raw vnseasoned gobs, And vomits not them forth! 1683 R. Dixon Canidia v. 20 One feeds his Lampries..With fattest gobs of slavish Flesh. 1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote v. xix. 369 Than for your worship's Eyes to follow Each Gob and Morsel that I Swallow. a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) ii. 36 The venison was over-roasted, and stunk—but doctor Dewlap twisted down such gobs of fat. 1828 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 124 A father that gaed aff at a city-feast wi' a gob o' green fat o' turtle half way down his gullet. 1871 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Fireside Stories 8 Ye tell 'em one story, and they jest swallows it as a dog does a gob o' meat. 1895 T. Pinnock Black Country Ann. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 664/2 I giw him a gob o' puddin' to stop his rackle. 1939 Boys' Life June 12/2 His mouth wide open so he wouldn't miss any of the big gobs of food he pitched into it with his knife. 1990 N. Spinrad Sci. Fiction in Real World 103 We will swallow great gobs of scientific baloney as long as the story holds up. 2002 D. Gill Amateur Yorksherman 23 That big fat gob of pork..by eck-gerrit down yer neck! b. at one (also a) gob: in one mouthful. Also (and now only) figurative (U.S.): in a single effort; at once; in one go. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [adverb] > at one mouthful at one (also a) gob1583 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Aa.ijv Thou wontest to vaunt he durst not meete thee in the face, but thou wouldest eate him at a gobbe, which now hast showed a paire of leaden heeles. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 41 And flead him, and thrust him downe his pudding house at a gobbe. 1611 L. Barry Ram-Alley i. i. A 3 b That little land a gaue Throte the Lawyer swallowed at one gob For lesse then halfe the worth. 1894 Lawrence (Kansas) Weekly World 13 Sept. 7/4 Cows are curious critters..the amount of water they can take at one gob is a corker. 1921 Smart Set Mar. 36/2 I took in all its lessons at one gob. 1963 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 21 Apr. iii. 2/1 Everybody..gave a spontaneous lift to the cornplaster industry by walking 50 miles at a gob. Compounds gob feeder n. a machine used to create gobs (sense 1c) of molten glass continuously at a controlled rate; frequently attributive.The gob feeder contains a plunger that pushes molten glass through an orifice. Shear blades then cut the gob from the stream of molten glass and the gob falls into a mould to be formed into a bottle, jar, etc. ΚΠ 1924 Glass Industry June 115/1 The dispute..over rival patents on plug or gob feeder and glass forming machines has been amicably settled. 1972 Derrick (Oil City, Pa.) 5 Apr. 20 (caption) Three employees of the Oil City Glass Co. attended the Maul Bros. Gob Feeder Training Program held recently. 2007 E. Le Bourhis Glass (2008) x. 214 Gob feeder rates can approach 300 gobs per minute. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gobn.2 Originally Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English. In later use slang. The mouth. Formerly also: †the beak of a bird (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] moutheOE billa1000 munc1400 mussa1529 mouc1540 gan1567 gob1568 bouche1582 oven1593 taster1596 Pipe Office1609 neba1616 gab1681 gam1724 mouthpiece1738 potato-trap1785 potato-jaw1791 fly-trapc1795 trap1796 mouthie1801 mug1820 gin-trap1824 rattletrap1824 box1830 mouf1836 bread trap1838 puss1844 tater-trap1846 gash1852 kissing trap1854 shop1855 north and south1858 mooey1859 kisser1860 gingerbread-trap1864 bazoo1877 bake1893 tattie-trap1894 yap1900 smush1930 gate1937 cakehole1943 motormouth1976 pie hole1983 geggie1985 1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 267 Quhair thair gobbis wer vngeird Thay gat vpoun the gammis. a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) ix. 28 in Poems A. Montgomerie (2000) I. 172 Meslie kyt, and þow flyt deill dryt in thy gob. a1586 R. Maitland in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 302 Thair is ane callit clemmettis hob ffra ilk pure wiff revis þair wob and all þe laif, quhat ever þai haif The deill ressaif þairfoir his gob. 1691 J. Ray Catal. N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 134 A Gob, an open or wide mouth. 1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iii. 97 The Goose..never rests, but constantly dips the Gobb of it in the Water. 1778 J. Ogle Sat. Noon 9 There's my fob Take out a piece into your gob. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. i. 3 I thrust half a doubled up muffin into my gob. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 421/1 He tied my hands and feet so that I could hardly move, but I managed somehow to turn my gob (mouth) round and gnawed it away. 1910 H. de V. Stacpoole Blue Lagoon (new ed.) 68 He'd a gob on him that hung open like a rat-trap with a broken spring. 1956 M. L. Settle O Beulah Land i. i. 66 Oh, shut your gob. 2004 D. Peace GB 84 68/1 Bloke behind counter just stands there. Gob open. We put stuff back. Compounds gob-mouthed adj. Manx English and Irish English gaping; open-mouthed. ΚΠ 1894 H. Caine Manxman 27 Hould your dirty tongue, you gobmouthed omathaun! 1998 T. O'Malley Journey Backward 35 Out he's [sc. a fish] hauled, green-slimed, gob-mouthed, To lash for life about the glittering surface. gobstring n. (also gobstrings) slang and English regional (now historical) a bridle (along with its reins); also in figurative phrases with reference to restraint. ΚΠ 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Gab or gob string, a bridle. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Gob-string, a bridle; keep a hand on the gob-string, keep a tight rein. 1855 in F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words Gobstring, a bridle. ‘He mun be hodden in wi' a tight gobstring,’ held in or put under strong restriction. 1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln 707 Hold fast by the gobstrings, the bridle. 2011 M. Paterson Inside Dickens' London 64 A bridle was known as a ‘gob-string’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). gobn.3 Chiefly English regional (northern). 1. Talk, conversation; idle chatter. Originally and chiefly in gift of the gob: fluency of speech, eloquence; = gift of (the) gab at gab n.3 Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] speechc900 talec1000 speaka1300 reasonc1300 speakinga1325 counsela1350 intercommuningc1374 dalliancec1400 communication1419 communancec1449 collocutiona1464 parlour?c1475 sermocination1514 commona1529 dialogue?1533 interlocutiona1534 discourse1545 discoursing1550 conference1565 purposea1572 talk1572 interspeech1579 conversationa1586 devising1586 intercourse1596 intercommunication1603 eclogue1604 commercing1610 communion1614 negocea1617 alloquy1623 confariation1652 gob1681 gab1761 commune1814 colloquy1817 conversing1884 cross-talk1887 bull session1920 rap1957 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem Apol. to Rdr. sig. A7 There was a man called Job, Dwelt in the Land of Uz, He had a good gift of the Gob. 1715 Four Hudibrastick Canto's i. 5 He had a muckle Gift o' th' Gob, And smoothly cou'd harangue the Mob. 1775 Covent-Garden Mag. Oct. 384/2 She's pretty, and has what we call, the gift of the gob. 1818 W. Midford Coll. Songs 46 in Eng. Dial. Dict. If Charley Smith's freens oney hadden their gob. c1850 J. Bagnall Songs of Tyne 29 Aw've heerd a deel o' gob an' tauk Aboot Newcassel streets. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words ‘It's a grand thing the gift o' the gob’. 1964 J. Lennon In Own Write 15 Dave was a raving salesman with the gift of the gob. 2014 Times (Nexis) 4 Oct. 57 My father had the gift of the gob—he could turn his hand to selling anything. 2. Impudent or disrespectful language, ‘cheek’; esp. in to give gob, to give (a person) gob. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > speech sauce malapert1529 petulancea1652 jaw1748 snash1786 slack-jaw1797 slang1805 gob1807 lip1821 cheek1825 slack1825 sass1841 back-talk1858 back sass1883 mouth1891 slack lip1899 back-chat1901 chin1902 slop1952 1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 77 He knew reeghtweel sud he Set up his gob, directly she Wad kick'd up hell's deleyght i'th' house. a1864 R. S. Surtees Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds (1865) xxiv. 98 She's just the impittantest, sarciest gal i' the world, arlways tossin' aboot and givin' gob. 1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words I. 331 ‘Aall gob an' guts, like a young craa.’—Proverb. 2015 G. McCrea Mrs Engels 74 Put their backs into naught, far as I can see, except giving me gob. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gobn.4 Coal Mining. Waste material used for filling an empty space from which coal has been extracted in a longwall mine; cf. gobbing n.1 Also: an empty space from which coal has been extracted in a longwall mine, sometimes filled with waste material; cf. goaf n.1 ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > area left after extraction of coal gob1802 goaf1820 goafing1875 1802 R. Warner Tour Northern Counties II. ix. 211 The gob or broken coal left behind in the works, being highly charged with sulphur frequently takes fire. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 980 The roads are carried either progressively through the gobb, or the gobb is entirely shut up. 1884 Times 29 Jan. 10/4 After driving 10 yards through the gob the body of Mr. Thomas was found. 1912 Manch. Guardian 11 July 10/1 Fires..sometimes occur in the gob and die out without the management knowing anything about them. 1939 in A. Banks First Person Amer. (1980) 84 Some of the waste material is thrown into the places just mined out, and this part of the mine is known as the ‘gob’. 1998 D. D. Gray et al. in A. K. Howard & J. L. Hitch Design & Applic. Controlled Low-strength Materials 181 This plant burns a mixture of coal, gob (coal refuse), and limestone in an atmospheric pressure fluidized bed combustor. 2000 Church Times 21 July 11/1 Strong gives a brief but detailed description of the pit, with its ‘gob’ or waste area, ‘an eerie place full of creaking noises’. Compounds General attributive, as gob-fire, gob pile, gob-stuff, etc. ΚΠ 1820 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XIV. 352/2 Gobbin, or gob stuff, is stones and rubbish taken from the coal, pavement, or roof, to fill up the excavation. 1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (S. Staffs. Terms) 73 Gob-road, a road..through that part of the mine which has been previously worked. 1898 Daily News 20 Apr. 8/5 A ‘gob’ fire, caused by a heap of fire-clay, duct, and coal slack. 1914 Scotsman 3 Feb. 9/2 That it be made compulsory to fill up or stow all gob waste, overhead vacancies, and disused working places. 1976 National Geographic June 769/1 You see more coal tipples, and more gob piles. 1998 C. E. Feather Mountain People in Flat Land xiii. 177 When children weren't hauling water from the communal spigot they were searching the gob dump for usable coal. 2001 D. P. O'Brien Safety Officer's Conc. Desk Ref. ix. 295 Gob fires may arise from spontaneous combustion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gobn.5 U.S. Navy slang. A sailor; an ordinary seaman. Cf. gobshite n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > from specific part of world lascar1625 Jockc1641 lascari1712 khalasi1783 galiongee1813 Flushinger1865 cassab?1881 gob1910 Limey1918 1910 Our Navy (U.S.) Jan. 19/1 A nod, a look, a glance of an eye, And some poor ‘gob’ is money shy. 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean iii. 44 I was feeding the coal to her when most of those..amateur gobs were seasick and useless. 1951 Landfall 5 iii. 193 He wore..a little white gob hat. 2003 C. V. McAvoy Journey 253 We stole everything we could get our hands on. The Navy gobs didn't care; some even helped us. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gobv.1 Frequently English regional (chiefly northern), esp. in early use. intransitive. To talk at great length or to little purpose (frequently about something); to boast, brag (about something). Now usually with on, off.In earliest use transitive with it. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter chavel?c1225 babblea1250 chattera1250 clacka1250 janglea1300 ganglec1300 clapc1315 mumblec1350 blabberc1375 carp1377 tatterc1380 garre1382 rattlec1400 clatter1401 chimec1405 gabc1405 pattera1450 smattera1450 languetc1450 pratec1460 chat1483 jabber1499 clittera1529 cackle1530 prattle1532 blatter1533 blab1535 to run on pattens1546 tattle1547 prittle-prattlea1555 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 quiddlea1566 brabble1570 clicket1570 twattle1573 gabble1574 prittle1583 to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597 to word it1612 deblaterate1623 tongue1624 twitter1630 snatter1647 oversay1656 whiffle1706 to gallop away1711 splutter1728 gob1770 gibble-gabble1775 palaver1781 to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785 gammon1789 witter1808 yabble1808 yaff1808 mag1810 chelp1820 tongue-pad1825 yatter1825 potter1826 chipper1829 jaw-jaw1831 buzz1832 to shoot off one's mouth1864 yawp1872 blate1878 chin1884 yap1888 spiel1894 to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895 to run off at the mouth1908 chattermag1909 clatfart1913 to talk a streak1915 to run one's mouth1916 natter1942 ear-bash1944 rabbit1950 yack1950 yacker1961 to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965 yacket1969 to twat on1996 1770 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances V. dlxxxv. 57 I do love prating to you, that's certain. There is but the Difference between us. She gobbed it away in the Morning—I love it only at Night. 1818 W. Midford Coll. Songs 51 in Eng. Dial. Dict. All the fine things ye are gobbin aboot. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 147 Yeow tew e'ent a dewin a nawn—you only go gobben about all day. 1840 Tyne Songster (new ed.) 75 They may boast o' their shippin..; But for every yen they are gobbing about, Aw'm sure we Can shew them, ey twenty! 1943 Oil City (Pa.) Derrick 25 Oct. 6/3 The bard was represented by a production of ‘Othello’ which will be gobbed about for decades. 1997 L. Cody Bucket Nut (new ed.) 60 Julio starts gobbing off about how many times he was on telly in the dear old days. 2013 D. McAndrew Grand Gesture i. 5 Will you stop gobbing on and go to sleep! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † gobv.2 Metallurgy. Obsolete. transitive. To choke or obstruct (a smelting furnace or smelting furnace part), esp. with molten metal that has cooled and solidified. Also intransitive: (of a furnace) to become choked or obstructed. Frequently with up. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > actions of furnace [verb (intransitive)] > become choked gob1832 hang1878 scaffold1880 society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > furnace or kiln > choke up or obstruct gob1844 1800 Philos. Mag. 6 326 The furnace..appeared in danger of choaking, or gobbing. 1832 I. Weld Statist. Surv. County Roscommon 48 Either through neglect, ignorance, or wilful design, the furnace became gobbed. 1844 T. Webster Rep. & Notes Cases on Lett. Patent for Inventions 387 I do not think it hurt the iron; it [sc. stone coal] gobbed up the twire. 1865 H. Watts Dict. Chem. III. 593 The furnace ought to be low, and driven with a gentle blast; but with all precautions, there is a tendency to gob the furnace. ?1877 in T. L. O. Davies Suppl. Eng. Gloss. (at cited word) If you put into your furnaces a quantity of stuff in which..silica preponderates, your furnaces will not flux, but they gob. 1882 R. Meade Coal & Iron Industries U.K. ii. xv. 624 The running together of the slag and the decrepitated particles of anthracite into an infusible mass, and gobbing up the furnace. 1917 H. R. Kempe Engineer's Year-bk. xxi. 855 The slag should not be too basic or limey; this causes the furnace to become sticky and gob up. 1920 J. G. Horner Pract. Iron Founding (ed. 4) iv. 52 Under no circumstances can the metal and fuel remain safely in a cupola.., since, if it sets, the mass will bung up or gob up the furnace. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2018). gobv.3 Coal Mining. Now rare. transitive. To fill (an empty space from which coal has been extracted in a longwall mine) with waste material. Also: to use (waste material) to fill up such a space; to pile up (waste material), esp. near the exterior of a coal mine. Frequently with up. ΚΠ 1836 T. Smith Miner's Guide 138 The deep space being cogged or gobbed up by the vast quantities of refuse and slack which are left behind. 1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. IX. 384 Every inch of coal..was cut out progressively forward, and the whole superincumbent strata allowed to crush towards to the stone or rubbish taken from the coal, which was used for gobbing the excavation. 1872 in A. Dalziel Collier's Strike S. Wales vii. 59 Each of the said workmen, employed for the time being as a collier,..shall wall, fill up, and gob up all the small coal, shale and rubbish made in each colliers' working place. 1882 Manch. Weekly Times 18 Feb. 5/2 There is sufficient air passing through the workings, but..it is considerably impeded in several places by gobbing up dirt behind the brattice. 1895 Trans. Federated Inst. Mining Engineers 9 108 A 7½ feet coal-seam 900 feet deep, was worked under the same area..: this seam was badly packed and gobbed. 1923 Science 7 Sept. 185/1 About 360 cubic yards of ‘slate’..gobbed in Slate Hollow became supersaturated with rainwater and wash. 1945 Graettinger (Iowa) Times 11 Jan. Mine refuse..is ‘gobbed’ underground or brought to the surface and dumped in piles. 1986 J. Aldorf & K. Exner Mine Openings viii. 307 The lagging is finished and the support is filled (stowed, gobbed). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gobv.4 Originally English regional. Now slang. 1. intransitive. To spit, expectorate. Chiefly with at, on. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (intransitive)] > spit spattlec1000 spetec1000 spittlec1340 spit1377 spetc1421 fipple?1507 reach1540 spawl1599 spatter1618 sputter1681 expectorate1823 gob1881 flob1977 1872 Galaxy Jan. 144 1872 144 What can be the meaning of a sign that a year or two ago stood..in the Bowery... ‘Gobbing in the Rear’?] 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 161 Gob, to spit out; expectorate. a1900 J. P. Kirk in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 665/1 [South Nottinghamshire.] Gob on the slate, Billy. a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 50 And they thank God, and gob at a gull for luck. 2011 A. Gibbons Act of Love (2012) v. 49 When they were done they stood gobbing on us. 2. transitive. To eject from the mouth by spitting; to spit out. Also with out, up. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (transitive)] > spit spitc975 spetec1000 spitc1386 outspita1425 spet1532 exspute1705 gob1933 the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > slaver [verb (transitive)] > spit > expel in spittle retch1538 spit1608 gob1933 1933 L. A. G. Strong Sea Wall ii. xvi. 223 Come on, man, gob it up. 1969 M. Feld Super Shelley's Mein Kampf 9 He whisked up some phlegm from deep in his tubes, and gobbed it into Howie's eye. 1995 D. McLean Bunker Man (1997) 139 Rob gathered some phlegm into his mouth and gobbed it out. 2006 G. R. Jones Semi-detached (2007) xvi. 280 I discreetly gobbed it into the gutter and noticed six or seven other well-chewed whelks discarded in exactly the same place. 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