The difference between Gob and Sputum
When used as nouns, gob means a lump of soft or sticky material, whereas sputum means matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus.
Gob is also verb with the meaning: to gather into a lump.
check bellow for the other definitions of Gob and Sputum
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Gob as a noun (countable):
A lump of soft or sticky material.
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Gob as a noun (countable, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang):
The mouth.
Examples:
"He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food."
"Oi, you, shut your gob!"
"She's got such a gob on her – she′s always gossiping about someone or other."
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Gob as a noun (uncountable, slang):
Saliva or phlegm.
Examples:
"He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement."
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Gob as a noun (US, military, slang):
A sailor.
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Gob as a noun (uncountable, mining):
Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
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Gob as a noun (US, regional):
A whoopee pie.
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Gob as a verb:
To gather into a lump.
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Gob as a verb:
To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
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Gob as a verb (mining, intransitive):
To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.
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Sputum as a noun (physiology):
Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus.