gozz

Alteration of gob. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

gozz (third-person singular simple present gozz, present participle gozzing, simple past and past participle gozzed)

1. (Britain) to spit
   • 2013, Nick Oldham, Bad Tidings, Severn House Publishers, →ISBN, page 164:

     He had had the privilege of being gozzed on by Johnny Rotten. A night to treasure. He hadn't washed for three days after.

   • 2014, Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of it All, Random House, →ISBN, page 119:

     One of them gozzed at him, which was a thing you'd see at a gig back then. Disgusting I know, but that's the way it was.

   • 2018, Roger Smith, Tell Me Why, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN, page 120:

     Unfortunately it quite often sidelined any democratic processes and became an integral part of the general mayhem as some unfortunate misfit of the moment was held down and gozzed on.

• gods (archaic)

From Arabic كُدْس (kuds, “heap of grain”). In the original plural أَكْداس (ʔakdās) and in certain forms of the related verb كَدَسَ (kadasa), the -k- was voiced by assimilation to the following -d-, and this voicing was then generalised (as in gideb, gidem etc.). In a second step the cluster -ds- was reanalysed as -zz-, leading to the new plural gzuz.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔt͡s/

gozz m (plural gzuz)

1. heap, pile

   Synonyms: borġ, għarma