gobbet

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A quantity of liquid, often in a sticky blotch.
    — BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets.
  2. A lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat.
    — The gobbet – the largest piece of meat served in hash or soup – was about the size of a man's thumb.
  3. An extract of text, or image (especially a quotation), provided as a context for analysis, discussion, or translation in an examination.
    — This new status for primary source material in schools was not a permeation down of the gobbet tradition from undergraduate courses. The gobbet functioned as a prompt to an exposition on the context of the extract — the period, the events, the people and ideas referred to in the gobbet.
动词 v.
  1. To splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter. transitive
    — The bullets that hit him […] burst the bared head into splinters. Scalp, bones and brain gobbeted the jeep as the dead boy screwed and fell sideways.
  2. To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets. transitive
    — Or, did you ever see a dog with a marrowbone in his mouth[…] how prudently he gobbets it: with what affection he breaks it: and with what diligence he sucks it.

词形变化

gobbets plural gobbets present,singular,third-person gobbeting participle,present gobbeted participle,past gobbeted past

词汇关系

衍生词
gobbety

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gobet, from Middle French gobet (“mouthful, piece”), diminutive of gobe. See gober.
词源 2
From Middle English gobet, from Middle French gobet (“mouthful, piece”), diminutive of gobe. See gober.
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