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gob

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gob1

▶noun Brit. informal a person's mouth.

– origin C16: perh. from Sc. Gaelic gob ‘beak, mouth’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gob2 informal

▶noun

1 a lump of a slimy or viscous substance.
■ N. Amer. a small lump.

2 (gobs of) N. Amer. a lot of.

▶verb (gobs, gobbing, gobbed) Brit. spit.

– origin ME: from OFr. gobe ‘mouthful, lump’, from gober ‘to swallow, gulp’, perh. of Celtic origin.

'gob' also found in these Oxford entries:

gab - glob - gobbet - gobble - gubbins

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