Gob was adopted in the fourteenth century from Old French, where the word was used to mean a mouthful of food. The word still exists in Modern French, but now refers to a food-ball used to poison packs of wild dogs, or a ball of roughage sometimes found in the stomachs of sheep. In English, a gob was originally any lump or clot of an unrecognizable substance, but by the sixteenth century it had reacquired the original French sense of a mouthful of food, especially food that is crude, raw, or barely palatable. Surprisingly, gob did not become a verb, meaning to spit out, until the late nineteenth century, about the same time that the eating of gobs fell out of favour. A related word is gobbet, a diminutive of gob that appeared as early as the fourteenth century. Although very similar in meaning to gob, gobbet refers more specifically to a lump of raw meat or to a lump of regurgitated food. In 1900, gob gave rise to yet another word when author Henry Lawson combined gob with blob to form glob (blob was already a well-established word, having appeared in the early sixteenth century). Unrelated from an etymological point of view, but almost an exact synonym for glob, is lopyn, a word of unknown origin that arose and died in the fifteenth century.