Gob
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Gob can mean several things:
- Gob is a type of dessert food, composed of two flapjack-shaped cakes, generally butterscotch- or chocolate-flavored, and a layer of marzipan or icing between them, forming a sandwich.
- Gob is a Canadian Vancouver punk rock band founded in 1994.
- GOB is the nickname (pronounced like the old Testament "Job") of a character on the television show Arrested Development. It is an acronym for George Oscar Bluth II, the character played by Will Arnett.
- In the Bible, Gob was the location of two battles between the Israelites and the Philistines, mentioned in 2 Samuel 21:18-19.
- Gob is the king of the gnomes, according to folklore.
- Gob is British English slang for mouth. Probably from Scottish or Irish Gaelic, mouth, beak, puckered mouth.
- Gob in Manx Gaelic means mouth, beak, muzzle, hook, bow (of ship), point, nosepiece, nose, spout, lip of jug, apex, nib, jet, pee of anchor, jut, headland, prominence, promontory, spit and is the name of river mouths or estuary points. See ManxNoteBook and usage/location Map
- Gob and gobbing are also British English slangs for spit and spitting - i.e. emissions from the gob.
- Gob is slang for sailor (usually US navy).
- Gob is the GObject Builder, an object preprocessor for GObject/C.
- Gob stands for garbage off bituminous, referring to waste materials from underground coal mines.
- Gob is a cylinder of molten glass which is about to be formed into a glass container. (Glass Container Industry)