gobbet
noun
[ ˈɡɒbɪt ]
• a piece or lump of flesh, food, or other matter.
• "a torn-off gobbet of flesh"
• an extract from a text, especially one set for translation or comment in an examination.
• "the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for gobbets"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French gobet, diminutive of gobe (see gob1).