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Gobble   /gˈɑbəl/   Listen
verb
Gobble  v. t.  (past & past part. gobbled; pres. part. gobbling)  
1.
To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. "Supper gobbled up in haste."
2.
To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock. "He... gobbles out a note of self-approbation."
To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. (Slang)


Gobble  v. i.  
1.
To eat greedily.
2.
To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.


noun
Gobble  n.  A noise made in the throat. "Ducks and geese... set up a discordant gobble."





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"Gobble" Quotes from Famous Books



... chuckled Leon, because it was a lot of fun to see her run her bill around, and gobble up the corn, ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... his spirit, "I got ten soferens in hand. Next quarter less you need and more you have. Less gass and electric. You don't gobble food so ravishingly in warm weather. The more ...
— My Neighbors - Stories of the Welsh People • Caradoc Evans
... know you now," cried the little man; "there's no mistaking you. You always speak as if you were going to gobble people up." ...
— The Man-Wolf and Other Tales • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
... we were young! Turkeys were rare, but Dr. Trimble had a turkey which he kept on his premises on Broad Street. Daily he and Mrs. Trimble would visit his treasure, who with his fantail erect and feathers vibrating and with a gobble-gobble and proud step would show his pleasure at the meeting, but the doctor and wife, although admiring and loving the proud and handsome bird, had murderous thoughts in their "innards," and declared he would be a splendid bird by Christmas for ...
— Some Reminiscences of old Victoria • Edgar Fawcett
... man is out to-night!' Unless you were a nervous, high-strung brat yourself, you can't imagine the effect of that on me. I crept off to bed shivering, and lay awake half the night. Every time the wind shook my windows, I pictured some monstrous, hoary-headed creature trying to get in and gobble me up!" She laughed a little. "It gives me a grue to think of it even yet. I discovered the explanation of the phrase the next day. Can ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston


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