What is another word for gobs?

Pronunciation: [ɡˈɒbz] (IPA)

Gobs, which means a large amount or quantity of something, has several synonyms that can be used to avoid repetition or to make the writing more colorful and expressive. Some of the synonyms for gobs are heaps, loads, masses, piles, quantities, bundles, clusters, bunches, collections, batches, stacks, and jumbles. Each of these words can be used interchangeably with gobs to indicate various amounts of things, such as money, food, or information. By using synonyms for gobs, writers can convey their thoughts with more precision and richness, making their writing more engaging and effective.

Synonyms for Gobs:

What are the hypernyms for Gobs?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Gobs

And between the guns, and in front of the guns, and past the guns went our marching men, our mud men, with wet steel helmets, with gobs of mud on their faces, with clods of mud growing monstrously upon their boots at every step.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Along the roads Australian and New Zealand horsemen go riding hard, with their horses' flanks splashed with heavy gobs of mud.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
They seemed always to have gobs o' money, and onct in awhile some little thing'd turn up to make folks kinder juberous somehow 'at they wasn't jist what they ginerally seemed to be.
"Hoosier Mosaics"
Maurice Thompson

Famous quotes with Gobs

  • If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.
    Donna Brazile
  • Then he saw his ghosts glitter with golden hands, the Emperor sliding up and up from his tomb alongside Charles. These things are not obliterate. White gobs spitten for mockery; and I too shall have CY GIST, written over me.
    Basil Bunting

Semantically related words: gob of spit, gob of food, gob of chewing gum, gob of clay, gob of mud, gob of paint, gob of toothpaste, gob of nail polish

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