Synonyms of gobbet

gobbet

noun

ˈgä-bət 

as in chunk

a small uneven mass

deftly avoided stepping in a gobbet of spit on the sidewalk

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chunk
• hunk
• wad
• clump
• lump
• glob
• gob
• piece
• dollop
• blob
• nugget
• knob
• nub
• clod
• clot
• bead
• globule
• drop
• bit
• nubble
• portion
• patch
• particle
• bulk
• morsel
• scrap
• crumb
• chip
• granule
• block
• body
• nubbin

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of gobbet

New York City schools had stopped serving the savory poultry gobbets after people found foreign objects inside them. — Colin Moynihan, New York Times, 28 June 2023

In temperatures exceeding 800 Celsius (1,472 Fahrenheit), gobbets of fluid metal splashed and contaminated the church’s stonework throughout. — Feargus O'Sullivan, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019

Afterlife with Archie cheerfully drops bloody gobbets of doom on the carefree world of Riverdale. — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018

The name of the sender was blacked out, but the content of the email took the committee’s entire threadbare claim to any legitimacy at all and fed bloody gobbets of that claim to the wolverines. — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017