gober

See also: Gober

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *gobbos, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (muzzle, snout, beak), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵoph₃o- (eat, masticate (of animals)).[1] Compare Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (beak, bill) and English gob.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɔbe/

Verb

gober[2]

  1. to swallow whole
  2. (figuratively) to believe easily, without evidence; to buy
  3. (France, slang) to ingest drugs, especially ecstasy or LSD.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*gobbo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 164
  2. gober” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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