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单词 flob
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flobn.

Brit. /flɒb/, U.S. /flɑb/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: flob v.2
Etymology: < flob v.2
British slang.
A piece of spittle and mucus that has been spat out; (as a mass noun) phlegm, spittle.
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1991 Guardian 17 Aug. 22/4 A group of spotty grebos admiring each other's chrome and planting the odd flob on the asphalt.
1998 B. Robinson Peculiar Memories Thomas Penman 64 Before you can flob, you gotta suck in, you can only get flob from your lungs, and you can't get real flob unless you smoke properly.
2003 Q Feb. 72/3 He..received a well-aimed flob to the face.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

flobv.1

/flɒb/
Etymology: onomatopoeic variant of flop v., indicating a softer movement and duller sound (see flabby adj.).
intransitive. To move heavily or clumsily, with a dull heavy sound.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move heavily or clumsily
wallop1718
slummock1828
flop1850
flob1860
1860 Squires & Parsons 196 Fine cock-pheasants, heavy with buck-wheat and maize flobbed up through the branches of the trees, were fired at and flobbed down again.
1882 A. S. Gibson Adv. Pig Fam. xxx How they flobb'd, and how they flopp'd And flounder'd all around!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

flobv.2

Brit. /flɒb/, U.S. /flɑb/
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: phlegm n., gob v.4
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < phl- in (phlegm n.) + -ob (in gob v.4), phonetically respelled.
British slang.
intransitive. To spit.
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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
1977 New Musical Express 24 Dec. 17/1 Loping towards the side-stage consol [sic] and flobbing in its general direction.
1989 M. Amis London Fields xvi. 312 I mean, you tell your opponent you're going to rip his ear off and flob in the hole.
2001 B. Hatch Internat. Gooseberry 41 Colin Hare's just flobbed in my eye.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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