What Does Gob Mean?

The word 'gob' can be used in various contexts and especially in Britain the word is used as a rude way to describe a person's mouth. A context is the best way to understand a word and the following sentence provides the context to use the word: Shut your gob! The abovementioned sentence is a rude way to tell somebody to keep quiet.

The word can also be used for a small amount of a wet substance that is thick. Given below is the context: Gobs of spittle are running down on her chin. In Britain the verb form of the word is also used to describe the saliva coming out of the mouth. But this use of the word is slang and is advisable to avoid.

In America the word 'gob' can also be used for a large amount of something like you can say: a gob of dollars.

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A Gob basically is a kind of dessert food, all so known as the whoopie pie; it is basically a good traditional baked dish to the Pennsylvania Dutch culture and New England.

It is made up of two little, chocolate, disk-shaped cakes with a sweet, creamy frosting sandwiched stuck between them. They are generally small, compressed, durable and suitable to carry about the person, they are well known as both a plain dessert or even as a snack food.

Even till today it is not clear where the whoopie pie was really developed. It is said that it was originally started among the Pennsylvania Dutch, where as some people say that it was first made in Bangor, Maine bakery from surplus cake batter. Some people eve say that it was in fact started to Maine and the rest of England by travelling Amish sects.

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