单词 | gobbet |
释义 | gob·bet I. 1. a. < 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. < 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 gobbet of gold — Amy Lowell > < some revolting gobbets of cotton — Jean Stafford > < watching the volcano throw up its gobbets of smoke — Wallace Stegner > 3. < snippets and gobbets of information culled from the classics — Listener > < unrelated gobbets of quantitative knowledge — A.W.Griswold > 4. < 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. 1. archaic 2. obsolete < they gobbet down his flesh — Robert Stapylton > |
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