Gob — Meaning, Definition & Synonyms

Gob (noun) — Senses, Synonyms & Antonyms

1. a small uneven mass

   "grabbed a gob of clay from the block and threw it on the pottery wheel"

   similar: blob, chunk, clod, clot, clump, dollop, glob, gobbet, hunk, knob, lump, nub, nubble, nugget, wad
   related: bead, drop, globule, block, body, bulk, particle, piece, portion, bit, chip, crumb, granule, morsel, nubbin, patch, scrap

2. a considerable amount

   "has gobs of money"

   similar: abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, good deal, heap, hundred, lashings (chiefly British), loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, shipload, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wad, wealth, yard, all kinds (of), quite a bit
   related: epidemic, plague, rash, bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, deluge, flood, overflow, army, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, throng, gazillion, jillion, kazillion, million, thousands, trillion, zillion
   opposite: ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen, speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, taste, touch, trace
   near: atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit, smatter, smattering, dash, drop, morsel, shot, piece, portion, section, absence, dearth, famine, lack, paucity, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want, deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, meagerness, scantiness, scantness, skimpiness

3. the opening through which food passes into the body of an animal

   "he threatened the yob with a punch in the gob if he didn't stop insulting everyone"

   similar: chops, kisser (slang), mouth, mug, piehole (slang), trap (slang), yap (slang)
   related: countenance, face, puss (slang), visage, muzzle, jaws, mandible, maxilla, gullet, maw

4. one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel

   "avast, ye gobs, and haul anchor!"

   similar: hearty, jack, jack-tar, mariner, navigator, sailor, salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, shipman, swab, swabbie (slang), tar
   related: coxswain, crewman, deckhand, shipmate, able-bodied seaman, able seaman, lubber, powerboater, sailboater, lime-juicer (slang), limey (slang)