gob

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...

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Language:English
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English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/29025
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spelling ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/29025 2023-12-31T10:19:21+01:00 gob image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/29025 eng eng G Maureen Murphy- Soc. 340/70 FL 70-20 Bay Bulls References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 14053 G_14053_gob http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/29025 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:36Z 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 Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI)
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topic English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
spellingShingle English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
gob
topic_facet English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador
description 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
format Manuscript
title gob
title_short gob
title_full gob
title_fullStr gob
title_full_unstemmed gob
title_sort gob
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genre Newfoundland
genre_facet Newfoundland
op_source Department of Folklore
Original held in the Department of Folklore.
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore
op_relation G
Maureen Murphy- Soc. 340/70
FL 70-20 Bay Bulls
References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php
Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database
14053
G_14053_gob
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