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goboon

noun

Etymology

From gob (“saliva”) + -oon.

  1. derived from *gobbo-✻ — “neb, muzzle”
  2. derived from gobet
  3. inherited from gobbe
  4. formed as goboon — “gob + -oon”

Definitions

  1. A receptacle for spit

    A receptacle for spit; a spittoon, a spitbox; a spit bucket.

    • He came into the limelight during segregation when a falling goboon brought with it a shower of something else and he earned the name of Reiny and a black N five stars.
    • [About Antek's bar:] Neither bright neon nor a soft fluorescence lighted either his ceiling or his walls; but there was plenty of butchershop sawdust along the floor and an old-fashioned golden goboon for every four bar stools.
    • In the House chamber, weary Speaker Sam Rayburn, pausing only to spit with experienced accuracy into his goboon, cleared hundreds of routine bills with incessant repetition of the magic words: "Without objection, so ordered."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for goboon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA