gobbetn.
/ˈɡɒbɪt/, U.S. /ˈɡɑbət/ 1.
a. A part, portion, piece, or fragment, esp. of something which is divided, cut, or broken. Also figurative. Now somewhat rare.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit
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c1330 Assumption of Virgin (Auch.) l. 599 in Englische Studien (1885) 8 455 (MED) Þe gerdel of hire middel smal, Nowt a gobet þerof, but al, ȝhe let falle to grounde.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. vi. l. 100 So hope ich to haue of hym þat his [read is] al-myghty A gobet of hus grace.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 696 He seyde he hadde a gobet of the seyl That Seint Peter hadde.
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 4508 For by help of þat mayde so fulle of grace His fedrys [= fetters] weron alle to gobetus y-broke.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 181 And loke þi schryfte be hole to oo preest, & noȝt to manye; on gobet told to oon preest, an-oþer gobet told to an-oþer preest, is noȝt goodly.
1538 N. Shaxton Iniunctions sig. Aiv Suche thinges as be set forth..vnder the name of holy relyques..Namely..gobbettes of wodde vnder ye name of percelles of the holy crosse [etc.].
1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. 22, in Bulwarke of Defence Looke seriously, that no shiuer nor gobet of bone be lefte in the wounde.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. v. 21 Sometimes you shall finde Bordures gobonated of two colours..and such a bearing is so termed, because it is diuided in such sort, as if it were cut into small Gobbets.
1659 C. Burges Case Concerning Buying of Bishops Lands i. 19 They saw it most seasonable to carve large gobbets out of their Estates.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 291 If a rock or mountain cannot..divide it self, either into great gobbets, or into small powder [etc.].
a1708 T. Ward England's Reformation (1710) ii. 88 No more must they in Gobbits shred Their old stale loaves of Common-Bread.
1792 T. Jefferson Direct. for Window Sashes 11 Nov. in Papers (1990) XXIV. 606 The gobbets [of glass] to be for panes 18. I. square.
1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I. (at cited word) A large block of stone is called a gobbet by workmen.
1868 Derby Mercury 28 Oct. To parcel out the property of others into 10, 20, 30, 40, or even 50 gobbets.
1933 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 2 Sept. 4/1 Platters of sliced ham, stacks of bread and gobbets of cheese.
1999 M. Kirkham Passionate Intellect iii. 158 Lines that break up the sequence of sense into gobbets of sound.
b. spec. A piece of flesh or raw meat; frequently in to cut (also chop, hack, etc.) into (also in) gobbets.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > specifically of raw flesh
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1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 63 Haris in talbotays schul be hewe in gobbettys al raw and sodyn with al the blod.
a1400 (?a1325) Medit. on Supper of our Lord (Harl.) (1875) 85 Thys lomb toke vp cryst Ihesus..Alle yn smale gobettes he hyt kytte.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 206 The prestes..smyten all the body of the dede man in peces... And þan the preestes casten the gobettes of the flesch [etc.].
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. xi. 32 Mycht I nocht caucht and rent in pecis his cors, Syne swak the gobbatis in the sey.
?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe xii. f. lxviii Two or thre yonge cattes, well chopped in small gobbettes.
1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments ii. ii. 50 Put in good thick gobbets of well fed Beefe,..also like gobbets of the best Mutton.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 326 They have a meat resembling the old Maza, which was meal mixed with water and oyl, with gobbets of flesh.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 22 (heading) To stew beef gobbets.
1753 Country Gentleman's Compan. I. xxii. 207 To the Boards you shall tye great Gobbets of Dog's Flesh cut from the Bones, according to the Number you feed.
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 235 Small red bodies, little bundles of red tissue, mere gobbets of venison.
1862 H. Taylor St. Clement's Eve i. ii, in Wks. (1864) III. 114 We'd slice them into gobbets And fling their flesh to the dogs.
1926 Spectator 17 Apr. 708/1 Hundreds of savages hacked into gobbets the reeking flesh of an elephant.
2009 V. R. Rumble Soup 33 Rich meat soups were made of brawns (pieces of flesh) cut into gobbets.
c. A piece or section of a literary or (less commonly) musical work removed from its context; spec. an extract from a text selected for translation or comment, esp. as part of an examination or course of instruction.In quot. 1853 as part of an extended metaphor relating to food.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > extract > [noun]
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?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 73 Now wil I English..your ragged gobbettes taken out of Ambrose glose.
1853 Anglo-Amer. Mag. 3 440/2 Just gie us the first sappy gobbet that comes to haun.
1889 D. J. Snider Shakespearian Drama 47 Some future member of the newer Shakespeare Society will yet slash the single plays to pieces,..and thus make a new Shakespeare with gobbets of the old one strewn all over the twenty-five years of poetical activity.
1930 D. L. Sayers Strong Poison xiii. 160 Playing the most ghastly tripe, sandwiched in with snacks of Mendelssohn and torn-off gobbets of the ‘Unfinished’.
1970 E. W. Hawkins in C. V. Russell Post-O-Level Stud. Mod. Langs. ix. 139 The assumption is made that..mastery of ‘French’ or ‘German’..can be assessed by means of translation of short gobbets of prose.
2007 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 127 264/2 The work of Dabdab Trabulsi examines the ancient Athenian notion of popular participation by combining gobbets of ancient text with commentary.
2.
a. A lump, mass, or amount; (originally and frequently) a lump of metal, esp. gold. Later also (in plural): heaps, loads. Cf. gob n.1 1a.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > [noun] > mass or lump of
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxii. 18 Grauel, and salt, and a gobet [L. massam] of iren.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. met. v. l. 1349 Allas what was he þat first dalf vp þe gobets or þe weyȝtys of gold [L. auri..pondera] couered vndir erþe.
c1450 (?c1425) St. Christina in Anglia (1885) 8 123 (MED) Alle hir membrys were closed togedir on a lumpe, nor þere myghte no thinge be perceyued of hir but allonly a rownde gobet.
c1565 Disc. Common Weal Eng. (1893) iii. 124 Everye tenaunte had his landes, not all in one gobbet in everye feilde.
c1580 tr. Bugbears i. iii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 98 313 For your daughters dowry you must..save & spare it is a good round gobett.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed ii. xiii. 232 His Officers and servants, who are paid their stipend in gold or silver uncoin'd in gobbets exactly weighed.
1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 95 She..being always barefoot and fetished with Chains and Gobbets of Gold, at her Ancles.
1833 A. Crichton Hist. Arabia I. 175 Through the whole country..passed a river so abounding with small gobbets of gold, that the mud at its mouth seemed to consist almost entirely of that metal.
1852 People's Illustr. Jrnl. June 142/1 In possession of..great gobbets of gold for the gathering.
1910 W. Deeping Rust of Rome 104 There was even an element of humour in the disaster, despite the fact that a gobbet of molten metal seemed to be burning into his flesh.
1999 P. Manning Islands of Hope 18 Most prominent are the..great mountains of star coral and little gobbets of golf-ball coral.
2001 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 12 Mar. 24 An enterprise which is bound to make..great gobbets of gold.
b. A lump of a viscous, coagulated, or solidified substance, as mud, ice, phlegm, blood, etc. Also figurative. Cf. gob n.1 1b.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [noun] > a dense or solid thing or body
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. ix. 21 Wher a pottere of cley hath not power of the same gobet [L. massa] for to make sothli o vessel in to honour, [etc.].
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Josh. iii. 13 The watris that comen fro aboue schulen stonde togidere in o gobet [E.V. glob; L. mole].
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 94 She was lyke the deuyls doughter, and on her chyldren hynge moche fylth cloterd in gobettis.
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iii. f. 181 This powder then set in the Sunne, vntyll it cleaueth togither in gobbettes or bygge pieces.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxlvii. 49 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 249 Gross icy gobbetts from his hand he flings.
1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. iv. 73 He sent me a little..dish almost halfe full of gobbets of..clotted bloud.
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 195 After what manner..Aqua vitæ may be truly changed into a yellow gobbet or lump.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 105 Green glass Fritt..is a Composition made of..common Ashes..or else of Gobbets ground to a fine Powder.
a1728 J. Woodward Select Cases Physick (1757) 145 He raised frequently little Gobbets of Phlegm, that seemed to come from the Tonsils.
1865 Eclectic Mag. May 584 Clots and gobbets of the new phraseology floated publicly.
1891 Collector 3 8/1 Those gentlemen who go out of doors to paint nature in dabs and gobbets of paint.
1960 J. W. Bellah Sergeant Rutledge i.1 Pete flashed up and into Willard like a gigantic gobbet of splashed brown mud from fast wheels.
2005 N. Brooks My Name is Denise Forrester 219 Gangs of boys decorated the ground around them with flicked gobbets of spit shot from between the teeth.
3.
a.
(a) A portion to be swallowed; a (large) lump or mouthful of food. Formerly also spec.: †a ball of meal or grain used to feed poultry (obsolete); †a medicinal pellet (obsolete).In later use perhaps merely a contextual use of sense 1 or sense 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > food eaten by birds > poultry food
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the world > food and drink > food > amounts of food > [noun] > small quantity > swallowed
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Dan. xiv. 26 Danyel toke picche, and fatnesse, and heris, and seethide to gydre; and he made gobettis [L. massas], and ȝaue in to mouthe of the dragoun.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 285 (MED) In þe place of þese pelottis, he schal take gobetis þat ben maad in þis maner.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 732 (MED) Of figis grounde and watir temprid, sclendir Gobbettis yef thy gees.
1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere iv. p. clxxi There is nothynge but a memoryall of his passyon in a cuppe of wyne and a gobbet of cake brede.
1562 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 3rd Pt. Secretes Alexis of Piemont i. f. 14 Make thereof litle gobbets, the whiche you shall geue to the Pacient fastinge.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. xii. 352 Then from her mouth the gobbet she does take, The which whyleare she was so greedily Deuouring. View more context for this quotation
1600 P. Holland in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 2nd Index sig. Eeeeeev/2 When they [sc. chickens] pecked either corne, or gobbets called offæ.
1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra (Job xx. 15) 181 Camels are fed by casting gobbets into their mouth.
1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. Introd. 98 Purging them [sc. cattle] with Aloe or Sempervive Leaves clear'd of their outward Skins, and thrust down by Gobbets till a whole Leaf is swallowed.
1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 130 Large Gobbets choak the tender Fowls.
1814 C. Lamb Let. 26 Aug. in Lett. C. &. M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 107 May it burst his pericran as the gobbets of fat & Turpentine..di[d] that old dragon of the Pochrougha.
1870 Harper's Mag. Oct. 668/1 Meanwhile the hounds are sniffing and snuffing around..while watching for the huge gobbets, which they expect to be thrown to them from time to time from the hands of the hunters.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 431 The bulldog growls,..a gobbet of pig's knuckle between his molars.
2009 J. Lethem in New Yorker 25 May 71/1 Once she'd had to cough back a gobbetof bagel and lox that Perkus had tossed her.
(b) figurative and in figurative contexts.
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1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall 20 Controuersies be meate and drinke to the people: but doo not cramme them with such gobbets, as may sticke in their throats.
1634 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 291 These gobbets are but Satans baits: which when we swallow, we swallow a hook with them.
1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 35 Such corrumpant Grandees, that think whole Kingdoms Gobbets not great enough..to satiate their Appetites.
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. ii. 28 Doubtless that they might be hereafter incapacitated for swallowing the filthy gobbets of Mahound.
1862 Sat. Rev. 6 Sept. 275/1 ‘The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord, Nicholas, of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal Priest of the title of St. Pudentiana, and Archbishop of Westminster’—one dwells with lingering delight on these unctuous and mouth-filling gobbets.
1934 East Liverpool (Ohio) Rev. 10 Feb. 4/3 Run-of-the-mine fellows..gulping gobbets of flattery.
2010 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 26 Feb. 2 Bite-sized gobbets of information that can be chewed over and ‘digested’ one by one by hungry learners.
b. A lump of half-digested food, esp. when vomited up. Also in extended use, and in figurative contexts.
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the world > food and drink > food > amounts of food > [noun] > small quantity > swallowed > lump half-digested
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1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 67 b If a gentleman..should vomite..and..caste oute gobbets.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A5v Therewith she spewd out of her filthie maw..Great lumps of flesh and gobbets raw.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 215 The stomacke..contracteth it selfe and returneth the crapula or vndigested gobbets into the lap by vomit.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxvi. 51 They would make us beleeve..that Aetna in times pass'd, hath eructated such huge gobbets of fire, that [etc.].
1694 tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in A. Tooke tr. F. Pomey Pantheon ii. iii. 196 He, gorg'd with Wine and Meat, did lie In his huge Cave asleep, his Neck awry, Vomiting Gobbets, mix'd with bloody Wine.
1837 C. Lofft Self-formation II. 204 Throwing it up in crude undigested gobbets, learned quotations, far-fetched classical allusions, and other such wretched stuff of pedantry.
1878 G. P. Sanderson Thirteen Years among Wild Beasts of India (1882) 281 The natives say that the tigress feeds her cubs when very young with gobbets of half-digested flesh, which she disgorges on her return from hunting.
1945 J. A. Thompson tr. H. Laxness Independent People xx. 140 She began to vomit up gobbets of horse-meat as big as your fist.
1987 New Scientist 16 Apr. 49/2 Back at home, their apologists sick up great gobbets of (disinformation) spew for supine journalists.
2004 T. C. Boyle Inner Circle i. vii. 134 A gobbet of meat, soft as a sponge, seemed to have climbed back up my throat.
Compounds
General attributive, now esp. in sense 1c.
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1714 ‘N. Ironside’ Orig. Canto Spencer xxi The Sorcerer Forth from a Wallet which beside him hung, Threw many gobbet Offals of good Cheer.
1923 W. Stevens Comedian in H. H. Vendler On Extended Wings (1969) 46 In beak and bud and fruity gobbet-skins.
1937 Philosophy 12 299 The ‘gobbet’ questions on the Posterior Analytics and the Novum Organum do not vanish until 1906.
1988 Scot. Hist. Rev. 67 102 Most of the facts come from well combed sources, and, indeed, some parts of the book read rather like a series of gobbet papers.
2014 E. Cleaver et al. Teaching & Learning 183 Some examples might include close reading of a text in literature, or primary source analysis (‘gobbet’ work) in history.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
gobbetv.
/ˈɡɒbɪt/, U.S. /ˈɡɑbət/ 1. transitive. To cut into pieces, divide into portions. In later use chiefly spec. (after quot. 1486): to cut up (a trout).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > prepare seafood [verb (transitive)] > cut up or carve > trout
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a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 54 (MED) Yf þou haue no lytel Perys, take grete, & gobet ham.
1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. fviiv A Trought gobettid.
a1500 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 112 (MED) Nym luys, turbot, and elys, & gobete hem in mosselys.
1675 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) ii. 262 Minc't meat, gobbeted in vine leaves.
1726 Gentleman Angler 149 To Gobbet a Trout, i.e. To cut it up.
1853 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 694 The terms severally employed to express the operation of cutting open different fish are strangely various: thus the reader will remember when he puts the slice into a fish, that he gobbets trout, truncheons eel, [etc.].
1893 J. T. Bent Early Voyages & Travels in Levant (1964) 262 We had several sorts of Dolmah , which is minc't meat stuffed into peices [sic] of gourds, or gobbeted in vine leaves or the like, and so boyl'd.
2006 C. Dart-Thornton Well of Tears v. 140 ‘Chine the bream, gobbet the trout!’ he declared.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously
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1607 C. Lever Crucifixe sig. E2v To gobbet vp a supper at a bit.
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 275 They gobbet downe his flesh, his bones they gnaw, And are most highly pleas'd to eate him raw.
a1704 R. L'Estrange Fables (1714) iv. 4 Down comes a Kite Powdering upon them in the Interim, and Gobbets [1692 Gobbles] up both together.
1851 Daily Free Democrat (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 1 Oct. A vulture gobbeted up the hawk.
1893 W. F. Smith tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel iii. xxxvii, in Five Bks. & Minor Writings I. 545 When all the Bread was gobbeted, the Cook seizes me the Porter by the Throat, demanding Payment for the Steam of his Meat.
1921 J. W. Thompson Lost Oracles v. iii. 94 (stage-direct.) Gobbeting a morsel of human flesh, and belching flame from his nostrils.
1926 San Antonio (Texas) Light 31 Aug. 18/1 How fervently he holds it, how prudently he gobbets it.
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