Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To devour in greedy gulps.
- transitive v. To take greedily; grab: gobbled up the few remaining tickets.
- intransitive v. To eat greedily or rapidly.
- n. The guttural, chortling sound of a male turkey.
- intransitive v. To make this sound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To make the sound of a turkey.
- v. To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff. Often used with up
- n. The sound of a turkey.
- n. fellatio; blowjob
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A noise made in the throat.
- intransitive v. To eat greedily.
- intransitive v. To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.
- transitive v. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
- transitive v. To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- To make the loud noise in the throat peculiar to the turkey-cock.
- n. The loud rattling noise in the throat made by the turkey-cock: sometimes used of the dissimilar vocal sounds of other fowls.
- n. 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 WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
- v. eat hastily without proper chewing
- n. the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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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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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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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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.
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Remember this the next time you want to let your dog "gobble" down some turkey.
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MadisonMan, you couldn't work in a 'gobble' in there, too?
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vendingmachine commented on the word gobble
listen to gobbling
March 15, 2015
hernesheir commented on the word gobble
See jollop.
November 21, 2010