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Plural of gob

regular plural

The plural of gob is gobs.

Forms of gob

Singulargob /ɡɒb/
Pluralgobs
Countablecountable and uncountable

Gobs in a sentence

  • gobs of money
  • The story of “Strangers” is a cliché of well-to-do Manhattan: Husband makes gobs of money.2026 January 11, Alex Kuczynski, “Her Life Was an Old-Money Dream. It Collapsed in a Moment.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  • The resulting goo gobs up around my molars, and I decide not to swallow it.2011, Aron Ralston, 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, →ISBN. From the entry gob up
  • He has the stuff in gobs, but he hates giving up.1934, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Right Ho, Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 3 Duke of York Street St. James's…. From the entry oofy
  • Behind them came a thousand tin soldiers with slingshots in hand, pelting our fiendish foes with snowballs and gobs of sticky treesap.2019, Jared Green, Santa: My Life and Times […], →ISBN, page 118. From the entry treesap

Meaning of gob

  1. noun A lump of soft or sticky material.
  2. noun Saliva or phlegm.
  3. noun A whoopie pie.

Full definition of gob

Questions about the plural of gob

What is the plural of gob?
The plural of gob is gobs.
Is gob countable?
Gob is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gob (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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