[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/gob.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / gob

[← G](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/G/)

# gob

«gob» in Mova's school dictionary: **Your mouth: Shut your gob!** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, slang, rude) Your mouth: Shut your gob! [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/#m3)

4) (UK, slang) To gob means to spit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/#m4)

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

- [Bit of a gob on him, mind» (a gob is a mouth; he talks too much and too rudely).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gob» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gob/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.