Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
GOB
trap, cakehole, hole, maw, yap, gob
(noun) informal terms for the mouth
gob
(noun) a lump of slimy stuff; “a gob of phlegm”
mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog
(noun) a man who serves as a sailor
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gob (countable and uncountable, plural gobs)
(countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
(countable, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
(uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
(US, military, slang) A sailor.
(uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
(US, regional) A whoopee pie.
Synonyms
• (the mouth)
(standard): mouth
(colloquial/slang): cakehole, face, mush, trap
• (saliva)
(standard): saliva, spit, sputum
(colloquial/slang)
Verb
gob (third-person singular simple present gobs, present participle gobbing, simple past and past participle gobbed)
To gather into a lump.
To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
(mining, intransitive) To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.
Anagrams
• BOG, bog
Source: Wiktionary
Gob, n. Etym: [Cf. Goaf.] (Mining)
Definition: Same as Goaf.
Gob, n. Etym: [OF. gob morsel; cf. F. gobe, gobbe, a poisoned morsel, poison ball, gobet a piece swallowed, gober to swallow greedily and without tasting; cf. Gael. & Ir. gob mouth, snout, W. gwp a bird's head and neck. Cf. Gobble, Job, n.]
1. A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful. [Low] L'Estrange.
2. The mouth. [Prov. Eng.or Low] Wright.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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