Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make the loud noise in the throat peculiar to the turkey-cock.
- To swallow in large pieces; swallow hastily: often with up or down.
- To seize upon with greed; appropriate graspingly; capture: often with up or down.
- Synonyms To devour, etc. (see
eat ); bolt, gulp. - noun The loud rattling noise in the throat made by the turkey-cock: sometimes used of the dissimilar vocal sounds of other fowls.
- noun In golf, a putt played with such force that it would be carried some distance past the hole if it did not go in, but which does go in.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A noise made in the throat.
- intransitive verb To eat greedily.
- intransitive verb To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.
- transitive verb To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
- transitive verb To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
- transitive verb [Slang] to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make the sound of a
turkey . - verb To eat
hastily orgreedily ; toscoff . Often used withup - noun The sound of a
turkey . - noun Scotland, slang, vulgar
fellatio ;blowjob
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
- verb eat hastily without proper chewing
- noun the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
Etymologies
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Examples
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The action of "I have come to gobble you up," is emphasized and made realistic by the _bb_ of _gobble_ and the _p_ of _up_.
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He had scarcely closed his eyes when a faint "_Gobble, gobble, gobble_" from across the cornfield drove all idea of sleep out of his head.
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Going to your hunting spot at dusk and waiting for them to gobble is called "roosting a turkey".
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Going to your hunting spot at dusk and waiting for them to gobble is called "roosting a turkey".
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The gobble is also not smart if the land you are hunting is wide open.
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Even her press announcement stating that she was stepping down as governor, she sounded like a turkey with her head cut off ... gobble gobble is all that could be made of the thoughts she was trying to get out.
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The gobble is also not smart if the land you are hunting is wide open.
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MOST HUNTERS know an owl hoot can make a tom gobble from the roost, but locator calls can do much more, from making midday birds talk to keeping a hot tom at bay long enough for you to set up.
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In the spring the turkey-cocks begin to gobble, which is the language wherein they make love.
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They name the Months very agreeably, as one is the Herring-Month, another the Strawberry-Month, another the Mulberry-Month, Others name them by the Trees That blossoms; especially, the Dogwood-Tree; or they say, we will return when Tur-Key-Cocks gobble, that is in March and April.
hernesheir commented on the word gobble
See jollop.
November 21, 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word gobble
listen to gobbling
March 15, 2015