| Summary: | gob A _gob_ of fish . . . doesn't specifiy amount. . . . it can mean a very great quantity, some, little or even none at all. My Uncle who is a fisherman in Bay Bulls S.S. says that a man named Puddester thought it up about eighty or ninety years ago, as a [1890+] retort. When a fisherman doesn't want to tell how much fish he's got, he is likely to put off questions by answering that he's got "a gob of fish." My mother, who is also from Bay Bulls S.S., says that . . . she always thought it meant an unusually large catch. DNE-cit Used I and Sup Used I 1 Used I
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