gob up

Definitions

1. 1

   To gobble

   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.
   • We are again and again made aware of the cruel fact of the sharks in Indian gobbing up the share of the national wealth that legitimately belongs to the vast masses of the country.
   • Blob just sat there gobbing up her pumpkin.
2. 2

   To hawk up

   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.
   • ... loinclothed figures bang metal in the gloom, sparks flying from the bellows; a man gobs up a crimson splat of betel juice; a wreath of acrid smoke hangs over a dung fire.
3. 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.
   • It took longer to gob up the ammo but in Obadi's words it was “more satisfying”.
   • So gob up your ears with a slab of this stuff so your head'll be on straight, then start your telling.”
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   1. 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!
      • His prose is generous, unhurried, and far too tasteful to gob up the page with theory.
      • My eyes are gobbed up with glasses; my teeth are gobbed up with braces. Nobody can tell what I am beneath such a load of remediation.
   2. 5

      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.
      • There is no waste dump at the surface, and none of the contents of the lode as yet broken down have been so poor in silver as to be thrown away or used for gobbing up.
      • Attempts have been made on several occasions to avoid the digging out by gobbing up the roads in the district and putting stoppings at intervals, the treatment being extended for 100 yards or more.
   3. 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.
      • Nothing gobs up the creative flow more than the image of a fat, lonely, middle-aged insurance salesman lying on his bed and pulling on his weenie while he listens to my words coming over the line
      • “Them pumps were in bad shape, and I was trying to get them back up and running,” Farley said.12 Stanley explained that the pumps would “gob up” and “we'd have to disassemble them, take them apart.”
   4. 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.
      • The resulting goo gobs up around my molars, and I decide not to swallow it.
      • Spray paint is decidedly unforgiving when it comes to dust and grime—I swear it gobs up and highlights every freaking dust particle— so it's worth it to do a thorough wipe down before you start the spraypainting portion of this project.

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