Gobbet

A Gobbet, derived from the Old French gober (to swallow) and etymologically related to gobble (to eat quickly), is a small chunk of meat, roughly the size of a mouthful. It is borrowed in modern use to indicate the concept of a small chunk, e.g.: gobbets of text, gobbets of information.[1][2] In the study of history and classics, gobbet often refers to a brief analysis text of a larger work or body of source material.[3][4][5] The Oxford English Dictionary contains no references to gobbets as literary fragments before 1913.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gobbets American Heritage Dictionary
  2. ↑ http://www.yourdictionary.com/gobble Webster's New World College Dictionary
  3. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20070222013722/http://www.cf.ac.uk/hisar/people/kw/gobbets.html
  4. ↑ http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/CAS/US_History/newexam.html
  5. ↑ http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2010/02/gobbets.html
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