evebarrett.com » gobbet http://evebarrett.com Words on writing, art, and the occasional thoughty gobbet Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:27:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Define…’Thoughty Gobbet’? http://evebarrett.com/2009/08/27/define-thoughty-gobbet/ http://evebarrett.com/2009/08/27/define-thoughty-gobbet/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:08:26 +0000 Eve Barrett http://evebarrett.com/?p=48 I mentioned in the About page that I have quite the obsession for anagrams, and I have an only-slightly-less-insane love of etymology and word meanings in general.  I have nothing against the word ‘blog’, I think it’s an interesting evolutionary tract for language to run through.  And sure, I’ll blog here.  But I’ll also give you a thoughty gobbet now and again – just something to think about, some concept or thing I find interesting or worth having a discussion about.

 

 

Still confused?

A thoughty gobbet is this:

 

gobbet |gäbit|nounA piece or lump of flesh, food, or other matter.Originating from gob.

 

thoughty |thawtee| adjectiveNot a word at all.  But you see where I’m going with this, right?  Just think ‘thoughtful’.

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