Meanings
comparative more gobbety · superlative most gobbety
- Like gobbets; having the texture of gobbets.
[…] that's the way the roundworm feels when a big gobbety mess of half-digested steak or moo goo gai pan comes sloshing down to him.
1984, John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick1 more example
[…] the pen had made a grinding sound against the bone of the old man's eyesocket when it finally let go, and there had been a loose, gobbety plopping sound as something fell from the bent tip of the pen's steel nib onto the blotter.
2006, Stephen King, Cell
Origin
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gobbety. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gobbety
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