Cooking And Food Preparation Vocabulary

noun a small piece or fragment of something, especially food

• The archaeologist carefully examined the gobbet of bone found at the excavation site.
• I found a weird gobbet of chewing gum stuck under my desk.
• He threw a gobbet of mud at his friend during the playful fight.
• The professor presented a gobbet of information for the students to analyze during the lecture.

noun the process of ice, snow, or another frozen substance becoming liquid or soft as a result of warming up

adjective becoming liquid or soft as a result of warming up

• The process of thawing frozen food should be done slowly in the refrigerator.
• I forgot to take the chicken out of the freezer for thawing, so now we have to wait.
• I'm just gonna nuke this in the microwave for a quick thawing.
• After months of not speaking, their icy relationship showed signs of thawing.