gobbet

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++gob·bet /ˈɡɒbɪt $ ˈɡɑː-/ noun [countable] old use  PIECEa small piece of something, especially food 一小片，一小块〔尤指食物〕

Examples from the Corpus

gobbet• Alongside this is a gobbet of text explaining the picture.• First the St Sebastian triptych, all finished, down to the last arrowhead and gobbet of blood.• Hastily she bit gobbets loose and swallowed them, bolting down a dreadful and disgusting feast.• The rest of you, choke on this last gobbet of my scorn!• The stodgy strands were long and thick and twisted, spotted with mobile gobbets of ketchup.• They do nothing to break up the food into easily swallowed gobbets or to tease out the hard inedible bits.• Really, he could use half an hour to digest the gobbets of this person.Origin gobbet (1200-1300) Old French “mouthful, piece”

gob·bet nounChineseSyllable  

something, a piece small especially Corpus of food

gobbet
gob‧bet /ˈɡɒbət, ˈɡɒbɪt $ ˈɡɑː-/ noun [countable] old usea small piece of something, especially food

gob·betBrE /ˈɡɒbɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈɡɑːbɪt/ 🔊 noun(old-fashioned) ~ (of sth) a small amount of sth 少量；一点点◆gobbets of food一点点食物