| 单词 | gift of the gob |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgift of the gob 1. Talk, conversation; idle chatter. Originally and chiefly in gift of the gob: fluency of speech, eloquence; = gift of (the) gab at gab n.3 Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] speechc900 talec1000 speaka1300 reasonc1300 speakinga1325 counsela1350 intercommuningc1374 dalliancec1400 communication1419 communancec1449 collocutiona1464 parlour?c1475 sermocination1514 commona1529 dialogue?1533 interlocutiona1534 discourse1545 discoursing1550 conference1565 purposea1572 talk1572 interspeech1579 conversationa1586 devising1586 intercourse1596 intercommunication1603 eclogue1604 commercing1610 communion1614 negocea1617 alloquy1623 confariation1652 gob1681 gab1761 commune1814 colloquy1817 conversing1884 cross-talk1887 bull session1920 rap1957 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem Apol. to Rdr. sig. A7 There was a man called Job, Dwelt in the Land of Uz, He had a good gift of the Gob. 1715 Four Hudibrastick Canto's i. 5 He had a muckle Gift o' th' Gob, And smoothly cou'd harangue the Mob. 1775 Covent-Garden Mag. Oct. 384/2 She's pretty, and has what we call, the gift of the gob. 1818 W. Midford Coll. Songs 46 in Eng. Dial. Dict. If Charley Smith's freens oney hadden their gob. c1850 J. Bagnall Songs of Tyne 29 Aw've heerd a deel o' gob an' tauk Aboot Newcassel streets. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words ‘It's a grand thing the gift o' the gob’. 1964 J. Lennon In Own Write 15 Dave was a raving salesman with the gift of the gob. 2014 Times (Nexis) 4 Oct. 57 My father had the gift of the gob—he could turn his hand to selling anything. < as lemmas |
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