# gob
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gŏb, IPA: /ɡɒb/
* (General American) enPR: gŏb, IPA: /ɡɑb/
* Rhymes: -ɒb
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### Etymology 1

From Middle English gobbe (also Middle English gobet), from Old French gobet, gobe (“lump, mouthful”), from Transalpine Gaulish *gobbo- (“neb, muzzle”).

#### Noun

gob (countable and uncountable, plural gobs)
* (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
** 1952, The Glass Industry, Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company, page 309,
    These inventors have discovered that gobs may be fed at widely spaced times without allowing the glass to flow during the interval but instead flushes out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.
* (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
    Synonyms: saliva, spit, sputum
    He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
* (US, regional) A whoopee pie.

##### Derived terms

* dough gob
* glob
* gobble
* gobby
* gobful
* gob iron
* gobline
* gob off
* goboon
* gobshite
* gobsmacked
* gobsmacker
* gobsmacking
* gobstopper
* gob-string
* gobstruck
* gob up
* goo-gob
* rent-a-gob
* shut one's gob

##### Translations
#### Verb

gob (third-person singular simple present gobs, present participle gobbing, simple past and past participle gobbed)
* To gather into a lump.
** 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich, Field & Stream, page 60,
    I liked to gob up two or three worms on a snelled hook, pinch three or four split shot onto the leader, and plunk it into the dark water.
* (slang, ambitransitive) To spit, especially to spit phlegm.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Probably from Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, mouth”).

#### Noun

gob (plural gobs)
* (countable, UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth. [from 16th c.]
    Synonyms: cakehole, face, mush, trap
    He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food.
    Oi, you, shut your gob!
    She's got such a gob on her – she's always gossiping about someone or other.
** 2005, “Tango”, in Public Warning, performed by Lady Sovereign:Now washing you will be like washing a goth / All that black lipstick around their gobs

##### Derived terms

* gob job
* rent-a-gob

##### See also

* gobble
* gobbler

### Etymology 3

Back-formation from gobbing, or a specified use of Etymology 1, above.

#### Noun

gob (plural gobs)
* (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
    Coordinate terms: gangue, mullock, tailings
** 1930, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 130, page 330:This consisted in wheeling gob back to the most distant part of the stope and filling up the sets right up to the roof.

##### Translations
#### Verb

gob (third-person singular simple present gobs, present participle gobbing, simple past and past participle gobbed)
* (mining, intransitive) To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.

### Etymology 4

Shortened from gobby or gobshite.

#### Noun

gob (plural gobs)
* (US, military, slang) A sailor. [from 20th c.]
** 1918 October 22, Letter of Adlai Stevenson, quoted in John Bartlow Martin, Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976), page 53:
    Well I have taken the oath of allegiance for 4 years service anywhere in the world and am now a real 'gob' in the U. S. Navy.
** 1928, Hart Crane, letter, 27 April:
    If it weren't for the Fleet I should scarcely be able to endure it. Gobs are always amusing, as you know.
** 1937, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 94:Full-cut, dashing "gob" slacks with back pocket.
** 1944 November, Fitting the Gob to the Job, Popular Mechanics, page 18,
    For the first time in history, new warship crews are virtually “prefabricated” by modern methods of fitting the gob to the job.
** 1948 June, Fred B. Barton, Mending Broken Gobs, The Rotarian, page 22,
    Taking a safe average of 2,000 rehabilitated young gobs a year, that′s a total of 100,000 years of salvaged manhood, a target worth shooting at.

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* BOG, bog

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish gop, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“mouth”) (compare French gober (“gulp down”) and gobelet (“goblet”) from Gaulish) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵebʰ- (“jaw, mouth”); compare Russian зоб (zob, “goitre”), jowl from Old English ċēafl; German Kiefer (“jaw”).

### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /ɡɔbˠ/, /ɡɞbˠ/
* (Connacht) IPA: /ɡɔbˠ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ɡʌbˠ/

### Noun

gob m (genitive singular goib, nominative plural goba)
* beak, bill (of a bird etc.)
** 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127:tā gob fadə eŕ ə grøtəx.[Tá gob fada ar an gcrotach.]The curlew has a long beak.
** 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127:tā gobī nə l̄axə bŭī.[Tá goba na lacha buí.]The ducks’ bills are yellow.
* tip, point, projection
* pointy nose
* nib
* (colloquial) mouth, gob
** 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127:dūn də ʒob![Dún do ghob!]Shut your gob!

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
gob
goba
vocative
a ghoib
a ghoba
genitive
goib
gob
dative
gob
goba
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an gob
na goba
genitive
an ghoib
na ngob
dative
leis an ngob don ghob
leis na goba :

#### Derived terms

* ar bharr do ghoib (“on the tip of one’s tongue”)
* frithghob
* gob siosúir
* gobach
* gobadán
* gobaí
* gobán
* gobchaol
* gobdhearg
* gobfhionn
* gobghearr
* gobmhór
* gobóg

### Verb

gob (present analytic gobann, future analytic gobfaidh, verbal noun gobadh, past participle gobtha)
* (ambitransitive) peck (ar (“at”)) (as a bird etc.)
* (intransitive) project, stick out, up

#### Conjugation

| verbal noun | gobadh | gobadh | gobadh | gobadh | gobadh | gobadh | gobadh | gobadh |
| past participle | gobtha | gobtha | gobtha | gobtha | gobtha | gobtha | gobtha | gobtha |
| tense | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural | relative | autonomous |
| tense | first | second | third | first | second | third | relative | autonomous |
| indicative |||||||||
| present | gobaim | gobann tú; gobair$^†$ | gobann sé, sí | gobaimid | gobann sibh | gobann siad; gobaid$^†$ | a ghobann; a ghobas / a ngobann* | gobtar |
| past | ghob mé; ghobas | ghob tú; ghobais | ghob sé, sí | ghobamar; ghob muid | ghob sibh; ghobabhair | ghob siad; ghobadar | a ghob / ar ghob* | gobadh |
| past habitual | ghobainn / ngobainn‡‡ | ghobtá / ngobtá‡‡ | ghobadh sé, sí / ngobadh sé, sí‡‡ | ghobaimis; ghobadh muid / ngobaimis‡‡; ngobadh muid‡‡ | ghobadh sibh / ngobadh sibh‡‡ | ghobaidís; ghobadh siad / ngobaidís‡‡; ngobadh siad‡‡ | a ghobadh / a ngobadh* | ghobtaí / ngobtaí‡‡ |
| future | gobfaidh mé; gobfad | gobfaidh tú; gobfair$^†$ | gobfaidh sé, sí | gobfaimid; gobfaidh muid | gobfaidh sibh | gobfaidh siad; gobfaid$^†$ | a ghobfaidh; a ghobfas / a ngobfaidh* | gobfar |
| conditional | ghobfainn / ngobfainn‡‡ | ghobfá / ngobfá‡‡ | ghobfadh sé, sí / ngobfadh sé, sí‡‡ | ghobfaimis; ghobfadh muid / ngobfaimis‡‡; ngobfadh muid‡‡ | ghobfadh sibh / ngobfadh sibh‡‡ | ghobfaidís; ghobfadh siad / ngobfaidís‡‡; ngobfadh siad‡‡ | a ghobfadh / a ngobfadh* | ghobfaí / ngobfaí‡‡ |
| subjunctive |||||||||
| present | go ngoba mé; go ngobad$^†$ | go ngoba tú; go ngobair$^†$ | go ngoba sé, sí | go ngobaimid; go ngoba muid | go ngoba sibh | go ngoba siad; go ngobaid$^†$ | — | go ngobtar |
| past | dá ngobainn | dá ngobtá | dá ngobadh sé, sí | dá ngobaimis; dá ngobadh muid | dá ngobadh sibh | dá ngobaidís; dá ngobadh siad | — | dá ngobtaí |
| imperative |||||||||
| – | gobaim | gob | gobadh sé, sí | gobaimis | gobaigí; gobaidh$^†$ | gobaidís | — | gobtar |
* indirect relative † archaic or dialect form ‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 38, page 21
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 370, page 125

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gob”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gob”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “gob”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish gop, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵebʰ- (“jaw, mouth”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kop/

### Noun

gob m (genitive singular guib, plural guib or goban)
* bill, beak, nib, tip
    duilleag na ghob ― a leaf in its bill
    gob circe ― a hen's bill
    gob pinn ― nib of a pen
    gob na stocainn ― a tip of the sock
* point
    gob an rubha ― the point of the headland
    gob na snàthaide ― the point of the needle
* mouth
    gob na cùiteige ― the mouth of the whiting
* garrulity
* babble

#### Derived terms

* glas-ghuib
* gobaire
* pìos àrd a' ghuib
* pìos ìosal a' ghuib

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Further reading

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “gob”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

## Slovene
### Noun

gob
* genitive dual/plural of goba