A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Gob, Gobb, n. [Sc. and Ir. Gael. gob. Also in northern Eng. dialects (1674– ). In later Sc. as gab.]
a. A mouth, esp. a large or ugly one. b. The beak of a bird.15.. Christis Kirk 167 (B).
Quhar thair gobbis wes vngeird, Thay gat vpoun the gammis a1570-86 Maitland Maitl. F. xcv. 55.
Thair is ane callit Clemmettis Hob, Fra ilk pure wiff revis thair wob, The deill ressaif thairfoir his gob 1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 19.
Thou sees souters, … and vthir mechaniks quha ar sufficient doctors, gif they be schod in the gob, and cry out that the Pape is the Antichrist a1605 Montg. Flyt. 788 (T).
Meslie kyt, and thow flyt, deill dryt in thy gob 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. A 7.
There was a man called Job; … He had a good gift of the gob 1692 Presb. Eloquence (1693) 76.
The goose … never rests, but constantly dips the gobb of it in the water
