English Dictionary

gob up

verb

To gobble; to consume. / To hawk up; To force phlegm or other viscous fluid up through the throat. / To coat with a gooey substance. / To add too many embellishments.

The hungry child would gob up his food in seconds.

意味（1）

To gobble; to consume.

Everyone at the table now had their eyes fixed on Lantier, who, quietly seated beside Coupeau, was gobbing up the last piece of Savoy cake, which he sopped in his glass of wine.

意味（2）

To hawk up; To force phlegm or other viscous fluid up through the throat.

She had a bottle of, well, bird spit (or phlegm, as she preferred to call it) each day. It was the stuff birds gob up as glue when they're making a nest, apparently, and it was supposed to be good for the skin.

意味（3）

To coat with a gooey substance.

The manager tells us this is really bad, as he puts a red bandana over his face, and we gob up the Vicks gel under our noses.

意味（4）

To add too many embellishments.

Wild game, fish, chicken, beef, pork (hawg meat) cooked right and seasoned with salt and pepper and not gobbed up with wild sauces, garlic, curry powder, kumquats, turffles, olive oil, prawns or drown'ed in wine!

意味（5）

(mining) To pack or fill with waste material.

Packers did the packing and stopping ; they were employed to pack up at nights. I cannot give you names, because we were changing every week. I think one man's name was William Abraham. They came in with the rubbish every night to gob up.

意味（6）

To clog or become clogged.

The moment the hearth of a furnace which is using these ores cools below the quality of the heat required to liquefy the cinder it chills against the walls, gobs up the hearth, and reduces the yield of the furnace.

意味（7）

To form clumps.

It is good to let the glue get nice and thick through many renewals, but if the glue gobs up unevenly, remove it with a scraper and hot air gun.