Gob - Definition and Overview

Gob can mean several things:

• The 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 Vancouver punk rock band founded in 1996.
  • Official web site (http://www.gobnet.com/)

• "Gob" was formerly a slang term for a sailor.

• "Gob" is [Irish] Gailic for "mouth", as in, "Shut your gob!". It entered british slang later

• "Gob" is also British slang for "to spit" or for "phlegm that has been spat out", as in, "Don't you gob at me!"

• 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 in pagan folklore.

• "Gob" is a common name for bituminous waste coal (http://www.energyjustice.net/coal/wastecoal/).