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# gob

noun (a gob, gobs); verb (gob, gobs, gobbed, gobbing — slang, rare)

«gob» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (UK, slang, rude) Your mouth: Shut your gob! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/#m1)
2. (slang) A lump or blob of something soft and wet, like a gob of spit or a gob of glue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/#m2)
3. (US, informal) Gobs of something means a lot of it: gobs of money. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/#m3)
4. (UK, slang) To gob means to spit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/#m4)

### In the lessons

Heard in everyday British, Irish and Australian talk and in stories with rough characters; not polite. Phrases: shut your gob, gobsmacked (amazed), gobstopper (a very big hard sweet), a gob of spit.

### Examples

- Shut your gob, you're giving the game away! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/#x1)
- There was a gob of chewing gum under the desk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/#x2)
- He's got a big gob, he tells everyone everything. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/#x3)
- I was gobsmacked when I won the prize. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/#x4)
- Grandad bought me a gobstopper at the seaside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/#x5)
- They've got gobs of money, they live in a mansion. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/#x6)
- Don't gob on the pavement, it's disgusting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/#x7)

### Note

Rude and informal: do not say Shut your gob to a teacher. Gobsmacked (very surprised) is friendly slang and fine with friends. Gobstopper is a sweet, not rude at all. Gob is not a short form of goblin.

## In Jewish tradition

A place where Israel fought the Philistines in David's time. Its exact location is not known. In the primary lessons: Heard in everyday British, Irish and Australian talk and in stories with rough characters; not polite. Phrases: shut your gob, gobsmacked (amazed), gobstopper (a very big hard sweet), a gob of spit.

### Examples

- And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant. (Prophets 2SA.21.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gob/#x1)
- And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. (Prophets 2SA.21.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gob/#x2)

### Note

Rude and informal: do not say Shut your gob to a teacher. Gobsmacked (very surprised) is friendly slang and fine with friends. Gobstopper is a sweet, not rude at all. Gob is not a short form of goblin.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «gob» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«gob» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/gob.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «gob» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gob/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«gob» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/gob.html) on Mova free.