GOB

PRONUNCIATION: (gob)

MEANING: noun:
1. Lump or a large amount of something.
2. Mouth.
3. Sailor.

ETYMOLOGY: For 1: Probably from Middle French gobe/goube (mouthful, lump). Earliest documented use: 1382.
For 2: Probably from Irish and/or Scottish Gaelic gob (beak, mouth). Earliest documented use: 1568.
For 3: Probably from gobshite (a worthless person), from gob (lump) + shite (feces). Earliest documented use: 1910.
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OOB - v.t., to help a patient get Out Of Bed during a hospital stay

GSB - a dyslexic British playwright, author of Pymgalion and others

GOK - identified GOK's Disease, a common malady without a cure ("What's wrong with him? God Only Knows")