gobbet

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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. isim 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.”

4. fiil To splash with small quantities of liquid; to spatter.

   “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.”

5. fiil To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.

   “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.”