Gobble

Quick meaning: Gobble is a verb meaning To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up).

Meaning

To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up).

More Meanings

1. (Scotland, slang, vulgar) Fellatio; a blowjob.
2. (golf) A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.
3. (ambitransitive) Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
4. (ambitransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.
5. The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.
6. (rare) An act of eating hastily or greedily.

Example Sentences

He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.

He […] gobbles out a note of self-approbation.

Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble.

[…] wrinkling his forehead and moving his jaws and throat violently, as if he expected to choke with each gobble.

Word Forms

• gobbles
• gobbling
• gobbled

Synonyms for gobble

Depending on context, synonyms include hork, scarf, scoff, bolt.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bolt, eat, guttle, grab, snarfle, pig out.

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