Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Gobbet

Definition: Gobbet

Gobbet

Noun

1. A lump or chunk of raw meat.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gobbet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: Gobbet

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Food

Mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet.

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Crosswords: Gobbet

English words defined with "gobbet": Gobet. (references)
Etymologies containing "gobbet": Gobet. (references)

Top     

Usage Frequency: Gobbet

"Gobbet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gobbet" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Expressions: Gobbet

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gobbet

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: Gobbet

Language Translations for "gobbet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

brocken (boulder, boulders, hunk, hunks). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κομμάτι (item, piece, sheet), κομάτι, κοψίδι (a thin piece, joint), όγκοσ (bulk, bunch, clump, excrescence, growth, hump, hunch, lump, mass, neoplasm, nub, tumor, tumour, volume), μάζα (mass). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nagy falat, nagy darab (chunk, hunk). (various references)

   

Manx

  

greim (bit, bite, catch, clutch, commissure, grab, grasp, grip, handhold, hold, morsel, piece, snap, snatch). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

obbetgay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

pedaço de carne crua, bocado de qualquer coisa, bocado (bit, morsel, mouthful, piece). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

scurt pasaj sau extras din text, îmbucãturã (bite, gob, joggle, morsel, mouthful). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pequeña porción. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

parça (attachment, batch, bit, cake, Cantle, component, cut, dribblet, driblet, fraction, fragment, item, lump, moiety, morsel, part, passage, patch, piece, portion, scrap, segment, shred, snatch, tool), lokma (bit, bite, chew, gulp, morsel, mouthful). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

шматок (bar, bit, clout, junk, slog, wad). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Derivations & Misspellings: Gobbet

Derivations

Words beginning with "gobbet": gobbets. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Gobbet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bobbet, Bobbety, Cobbet, gbe-tv, gebet, globet, Gobaith, gobbed, gobber, Gobbitt, gobblet, gobe, gobot, Godbert, goombay, Gubbay. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Anagrams: Gobbet

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-e-g-o-t"

-1 letter: begot.

-3 letters: beg, bet, bob, bog, bot, ebb, ego, get, gob, got, obe, teg, toe, tog.

-4 letters: be, bo, et, go, oe, to.

 Words containing the letters "b-b-e-g-o-t"
 

+1 letter: gobbets.

 

+3 letters: globbiest.

 

+5 letters: browbeating, gibbosities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     



Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.