Goat’s Jig (or Gigg), subs. (old).—Copulation. For synonyms, see
Greens.—Grose.
Go-away, subs. (American thieves’).—A railway-train.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. The knuck was working the goaways at
Jersey City.
Gob (or Gobbett), subs. (old: now vulgar). 1. A portion; a mouthful; a
morsel. Also a gulp; a bolt (q.v.). [Latin, gob = mouth: Old Fr., gob =
a gulp.] Skeat says the shorter form gob is rare.
1380. Wycliffe, Trans. of Bible. Thei token the relifis of broken
gobetis twelve cofres full.
1542. Apop. of Erasmus [1878], p. 14. A bodie thinketh hymself well
emende in his substaunce and riches, to whom hath happened some
good gubbe of money, and maketh a great whinyng if he haue had any
losse of the same.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, in wks., v., 261. And thrust him downe
his pudding house at a gobbe.
1605. Chapman, All Fools, Act iii., p. 62 (Plays, 1874). Ri. And do
you think He’ll swallow down the gudgeon? Go. O my life, It were a
gross gob would not down with him.
1611. L. Barry, Ram. Alley, I., i. That little land he gave,
Throate the lawyer swallowed at one gob For less than half the
worth.
1689. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 50 (Arber’s ed.). The meaning of the
Law was, that so much should be taken from a man, such a gobbet
sliced off, that yet notwithstanding he might live in the same Rank
and Condition he lived in before; but now they Fine men ten times
more than they are worth.
1690. B. E., Dict. Canting Crew, s.v. Gob(c) ... also a Bit or
Morsel; hence gobbets, now more in use for little Bits.
1748. T. Dyche, Dictionary (5th ed.). Gob or gobbet (s.) a piece
just big enough, or fit to be put into the mouth at once.
1774. Foote, Cozeners, ii., 2. The venison was over-roasted, and
stunk—but Doctor Dewlap twisted down such gobs of fat.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1816. Johnson, Eng. Dict. (12th ed.). Gob, a small quantity, a low
word.
1869. S. L. Clemens (M. Twain), Innocents Abroad, ch. vii. It is
pushed out into the sea on the end of a flat, narrow strip of land,
and is suggestive of a gob of mud on the end of a shingle.
2. (common).—The mouth. Shut your gob = an injunction to silence. See
Gab. A spank on the gob = a blow on the mouth. Gob-full of claret = a
bleeding at the mouth. Gift of the gab or gob, see Gab. For synonyms
see Potato-trap.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Gob, the Mouth.
1819. T. Moore, Tom Crib’s Memorial, p. 18. Home-hits in the
bread-basket, clicks in the gob. Ibid., p. 30.
1836. M. Scott, Tom Cringle’s Log, ch. 1. ‘All right—all right,’ I
then exclaimed, as I thrust half a doubled-up muffin into my gob.
1851–61. H. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor, vol. I., p. 469. I
managed somehow to turn my gob (mouth) round and gnawed it away.
3. (common).—A mouthful of spittle. Fr., un copeau; It., smalzo di
cavio (= gutter-butter). For synonyms, see Sixpences.
Verb. (common).—1. To swallow in mouthfuls; to gulp down. Also gobble
(q.v.).
1692. L’Estrange, Fables. Down comes a kite powdering upon them,
and gobbets up both together.