gobs up

Verb

gob up (third-person singular simple present gobs up, present participle gobbing up, simple past and past participle gobbed up)

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.1909, Émile Zola, Drink, page 199
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.2011, Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, Aisleyne: Surviving Guns, Gangs and Glamour, →ISBN
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.2000, Dan Heidt, Disposable Heroes, →ISBN, page 144
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!1957, Rayburn's Ozark Guide - Issues 51-66, page 32
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.1879, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, Reports from Commissioners - Volume 18, page 24
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.1881, American Iron and Steel Association -, The Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association

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