gobshell

A glob of saliva and/or phlegm projected out of a person's mouth.

Noun

  1. A glob of saliva and/or phlegm projected out of a person's mouth.
    • He fetched a phlegm and a gobshell splashed in the bladderwrack. - 2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 531:

Origin

From Irish gob (“mouth”) + seile (“spittle”).

Forms

gobshells