Gobbet (noun)

  1. A small piece of meat or other food that is swallowed without chewing.
  2. A small piece of something, especially of flesh or meat.

Origin:

From middle english gobet, from old french gobet, diminutive of gobe, from frankish *guba, from proto-germanic *gubō ("beak, mouth, jaw").

Examples:

  1. He ate the gobbets of meat one by one, savoring each bite.
  2. The patient was unable to swallow the gobbets of food, so the nurse had to puree it.
  3. The carnivorous plant trapped insects by quickly folding its leaves around them and swallowing them whole, as if they were gobbets of food.
  4. The gobbets of flesh were too big to swallow.
  5. He took a gobbet of the cake and put it in his mouth.