Gib vs. Gob

A plain or notched, often wedge-shaped piece of wood or metal designed to hold parts of a machine or structure in place or provide a bearing surface, usually adjusted by a screw or key.

A small mass or lump.

A male cat, especially a castrated one.

often gobs(Informal) A large quantity

To fasten with a gib.

The mouth.

A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.

A sailor.

A castrated male cat or ferret.

(countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.

A male cat; a tomcat.

The mouth.

A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.

Saliva or phlegm.

(video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.

A sailor.

(New Zealand) plasterboard.

Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.

To fasten in place with a gib.

A whoopee pie.

To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.

To gather into a lump.

(New Zealand) To install plasterboard.

To spit, especially to spit phlegm.

A male cat; a tomcat.

To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.

A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; - usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.

Same as Goaf.

To act like a cat.

A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful.

To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.

The mouth.

a castrated tomcat

Same as sailor.

a man who serves as a sailor

a lump of slimey stuff;

informal terms for the mouth