请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 gobbet
释义 gob·bet
I. \ˈgäbə̇t, usu -ə̇d.+V\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English gobet, from Middle French, mouthful, bite, piece, from gober to gulp down, swallow, probably of Celtic origin; akin to Irish Gaelic & Scottish Gaelic gob beak, snout, protruding mouth
1.
 a. : a piece or portion of food or raw meat : morsel
  < smoking gobbets of ready-cooked fish, chicken, and turkey — H.L.Davis >
  < slice them into gobbets and fling their flesh to the dogs — Henry Taylor >
 b. : a mouthful of food
  < slices of bread covered with honey which he was shoveling into himself in dripping gouts and gobbets — Kenneth Roberts >
  < the masses of raw immigrants … were unwelcome gobbets to the Brahmin stomach — V.L.Parrington >
2. : a lump or mass usually of indefinite or variable shape : gob
 < a gobbet of gold — Amy Lowell >
 < some revolting gobbets of cotton — Jean Stafford >
 < watching the volcano throw up its gobbets of smoke — Wallace Stegner >
3. : a fragment or extract of literature or music
 < snippets and gobbets of information culled from the classics — Listener >
 < unrelated gobbets of quantitative knowledge — A.W.Griswold >
4. : a small quantity of liquid : drop
 < gobbets of oil — William Beebe >
 < she shipped a gobbet of sea, only a thin little runnel that escaped at once through the open scuppers — Victoria Sackville-West >
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English gobeten, from gobet, n.
1. archaic : to cut up (as a trout)
2. obsolete : to swallow in gobbets
 < they gobbet down his flesh — Robert Stapylton >
随便看

 

英语词典包含332784条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/10 14:12:08