Gobs means a large amount or quantity, always plural: gobs of money, gobs of time, She put gobs of butter on the toast.
The word is informal and emphatic, suggesting abundance or excess.
A gob in the singular is a lump or blob, especially of something soft or wet: a gob of spit.
1. quantity — heaps, Large informal quantities; loads (Large quantities); tons (Large quantities, informally); scads (Informal term for plenty); oodles · bunches · piles · stacks · masses · lots · plenty · scores · droves · hordes
2. slang — mouth, Oral opening; spit (Expelled mouth moisture); saliva (Mouth's digestive secretion); spittle (Expelled mouth secretion); glob · wad · chaw · phlegm · mucus · expectorate · drool · slobber · gunk
Opposites
QUANTITYgobs ≠ little Small in degree; none · nothing · zilch · a smidgen · zip
Phrases
gobbled up (Ate rapidly, completely); gobble up (Eat fast and eagerly); gobble gobble; gob stoppers (Large, long-lasting hard candies); shut one's gob (Be quiet, rudely said); turkey gobble (Male poultry's distinctive call)
Categories
clumps: clumps, lumps, blobs, globs, clods; Amounts: a lot, a few, a little, some, many; excess: excess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance; Informal Amounts: smidgen, bunch, ton, heap, loads; quantities: some, many, few, amount, several
Family
gobble, gob, gobbles, gobbled, gobbler
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- Profile
- Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G