You learn something new every day.

The first time I heard the word "gobbet", I thought it was something my two year old nephew made up when he was mostly babbling. I never thought it was a proper word, until my mum told me that it was mentioned in the film The History Boys, that she went to see the other day. I still didn't believe it, until I looked it up in the Concise Oxford Dictionary and, sure enough, it was in there. It defines it as thus:

gobbet n. 1. (arch.) piece, lump, esp. of raw flesh or food. 2. extract from a text esp. set for translation or comment in examination.

Amazing what you learn from cinema.