† globbe, glubbe, v. Obs. rare—1.
[Onomatopœic: cf. gloff, glop, gulp.]
trans. To gulp down (liquor); to eat gluttonously. Hence ˈglobber, a glutton.
| 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 346 [They] seten so til euensonge..Tyl Glotoun had y-globbed [v.rr. (y-)glubbed, globed] a galoun an[d] a Iille. Ibid. ix. 60 Moche wo worth that man that mysreuleth his Inwitte, And that be glotouns globbares [v.rr. glubberes, clobberis], her god is her wombe. |