noun
- small pieces or lumps of something, especially food or flesh
- short extracts or passages from a text
Usage: academic; literary
Examples
- The cat left gobbets of fish on the kitchen floor.
- She threw gobbets of raw meat to the hungry dogs.
- The students analyzed gobbets from Shakespeare’s plays.
- Gobbets of mud splattered across the windshield.
- The professor assigned gobbets from various historical documents.
- Small gobbets of cheese were scattered on the cutting board.