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gob·bet

 (gŏb′ĭt)
n.
1. A piece or chunk, especially of raw meat.
2. A bit or morsel: a diary containing gobbets of useful information.
3. A small amount of liquid; a drop.

[Middle English gobet, from Old French, diminutive of gobe, mouthful; see gob1.]
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gobbet

(ˈɡɒbɪt)
n
(Cookery) a chunk, lump, or fragment, esp of raw meat
[C14: from Old French gobet, from gober to gulp down]
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gob•bet

(ˈgɒb ɪt)

n.
1. a piece, esp. of raw flesh.
2. a lump or mass.
[1275–1325; Middle English gobet < Old French: a mouthful, diminutive of gobe. See -et]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.gobbet - a lump or chunk of raw meat
raw meat - uncooked meat
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Translations

gobbet

[ˈgɒbɪt] N [of food etc] → trocito m, pequeña porción f
gobbets of informationpequeños elementos mpl de información
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gobbet

nBrocken m
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References in classic literature ?
Presently he turned sick, and threw up both wine and the gobbets of human flesh on which he had been gorging, for he was very drunk.
This bottom was littered with great gobbets of flesh, most of which was in the last state of putridity.
And indeed to watch him dallying with a little gobbet of bread, or sipping his cup of thrice-watered wine, is enough to make a man feel shame at his own hunger.
The authors present interesting gobbets of parallel texts from early sources.
Tribune News Service LITERARY agent and provocateur John Brockman has turned popular science into a sort of modern shamanism, packaged non-fiction into gobbets of smart thinking, made stars of unlikely writers and continues to direct, deepen and contribute to some of the most hotly contested conversations in civic life.
Initially, Ocmo is merely challenging, requiring you to sweep between gobbets of lethal slime, detaching and snatching at just the right time and place to avoid a messy death, but after only a few of the gloriously detailed levels, the demands begin to skyrocket.
News afterwards, though, that De Bruyne had in fact come close to missing the Bournemouth game with a sickness bug - that caused him to lose nearly half-a-stone in weight - only served to add to the catalogue of extraordinary gobbets that articulate the incredible story unfolding at the Etihad.
[...] Like a priesthood that restrictively mediates the Word of God and insists on the literal equation of body and bread (Error vomits gobbets of flesh along with books and papers), Duessa's false letter interjects itself between the true church and the man of faith, thus producing a bifurcation even more invidious than the bifurcation she exemplifies.
Across the "mainstream media" spectrum, there they were: the nation's sophisticated, elite, urbane, self-proclaimed intellectuals; predatory politicians, alleged "journalists" (actually just unregistered lobbyists), and social commentators, most weeping rivers of tears and spewing gobbets of snot, choking in disbelief Melted makeup pooled in puddles on talk-show tables.
Publication of books of old photographs and digital access to a world of images has intensified the decontextualization of these images as well as the tendency to read images as "isolated gobbets of information" (254), though some survey collections have been digitized in ways that preserve their integrity.
Given the all-round nature of his game as passer, dribbler, playmaker, provider of relentless gobbets of brilliance, perhaps the only real question is not whether he's the best right now, or the best of his era, but whether he's simply the best.