Gobbet
(noun)
- A small piece of meat or other food that is swallowed without chewing.
- 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 *gubÅ ("beak, mouth, jaw").
Examples:
- He ate the gobbets of meat one by one, savoring each bite.
- The patient was unable to swallow the gobbets of food, so the nurse had to puree it.
- The carnivorous plant trapped insects by quickly folding its leaves around them and swallowing them whole, as if they were gobbets of food.
- The gobbets of flesh were too big to swallow.
- He took a gobbet of the cake and put it in his mouth.