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Gobbo

Gobbo is an Italian surname meaning " hunchback". Notable people with the surname include:

  • Antonio Roque Gobbo (born 1935), Brazilian writer
  • Gian Paolo Gobbo (born 1949), Italian politician
  • James Gobbo (born 1931), Australian jurist, 25th Governor of Victoria
  • Renzo Gobbo (born 1961), Italian footballer and manager

Fictional characters:

  • Lancelot Gobbo, a character in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice

Usage examples of "gobbo".

And there, among the lighter shipping, was the brig bound to the order of the gastaldo grande, with the yellow sails and device of the rising sun--with the gobbo in orange doublet on the masthead for good luck, and the gobbo on the deck to make it sure.

Meanwhile I noticed that Locksley, who was getting slightly tight, was cramming into the salted almonds for all he was worth, and if he faltered Gobbo plied him again and again and Locksley never said no.

I know Gobbo was a doctor with a chance of obtaining cultures of anthrax.

But I happen to be a dentist, like my friend who left me his collection, and Gobbo made an appointment for an extraction.

I must find Gobbo the handy man -- there is the toilet in Signor Falco, the broken window in Madam Jordan and the doorknob in my bedroom .

Within the immense space which stretches between Dogberry or Launcelot Gobbo and Imogen or Cordelia, lies the Shakespearian world.