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gob·ble 1

 (gŏb′əl)
v. gob·bled, gob·bling, gob·bles
v.tr.
1. To devour in greedy gulps.
2. To take greedily; grab: gobbled up the few remaining tickets.
v.intr.
To eat greedily or rapidly.

[Frequentative of Middle English gobben, to drink greedily, probably from gobbe, lump, mouthful; see gob1.]

gob·ble 2

 (gŏb′əl)
n.
The guttural, chortling sound of a male turkey.
intr.v. gob·bled, gob·bling, gob·bles
To make this sound.

[Imitative.]
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gobble

(ˈɡɒbəl)
vb
1. (when: tr, often foll by up) to eat or swallow (food) hastily and in large mouthfuls
2. informal (often foll by: up) to snatch
[C17: probably from gob1]

gobble

(ˈɡɒbəl)
n
(Zoology) the loud rapid gurgling sound made by male turkeys
interj
an imitation of this sound
vb
(Zoology) (intr) (of a turkey) to make this sound
[C17: probably of imitative origin]
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gob•ble1

(ˈgɒb əl)

v. -bled, -bling. v.t.
1. to eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
2. to seize upon eagerly (often fol. by up): He gobbled up all the news.
v.i.
3. to eat hastily.
[1595–1605; probably imitative; see gob1, -le]

gob•ble2

(ˈgɒb əl)

v. -bled, -bling,
n. v.i.
1. to make the throaty cry of a male turkey.
n.
2. the cry itself.
[1670–80; variant of gabble]
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gobble


Past participle: gobbled
Gerund: gobbling

Imperative
gobble
gobble
Present
I gobble
you gobble
he/she/it gobbles
we gobble
you gobble
they gobble
Preterite
I gobbled
you gobbled
he/she/it gobbled
we gobbled
you gobbled
they gobbled
Present Continuous
I am gobbling
you are gobbling
he/she/it is gobbling
we are gobbling
you are gobbling
they are gobbling
Present Perfect
I have gobbled
you have gobbled
he/she/it has gobbled
we have gobbled
you have gobbled
they have gobbled
Past Continuous
I was gobbling
you were gobbling
he/she/it was gobbling
we were gobbling
you were gobbling
they were gobbling
Past Perfect
I had gobbled
you had gobbled
he/she/it had gobbled
we had gobbled
you had gobbled
they had gobbled
Future
I will gobble
you will gobble
he/she/it will gobble
we will gobble
you will gobble
they will gobble
Future Perfect
I will have gobbled
you will have gobbled
he/she/it will have gobbled
we will have gobbled
you will have gobbled
they will have gobbled
Future Continuous
I will be gobbling
you will be gobbling
he/she/it will be gobbling
we will be gobbling
you will be gobbling
they will be gobbling
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been gobbling
you have been gobbling
he/she/it has been gobbling
we have been gobbling
you have been gobbling
they have been gobbling
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been gobbling
you will have been gobbling
he/she/it will have been gobbling
we will have been gobbling
you will have been gobbling
they will have been gobbling
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been gobbling
you had been gobbling
he/she/it had been gobbling
we had been gobbling
you had been gobbling
they had been gobbling
Conditional
I would gobble
you would gobble
he/she/it would gobble
we would gobble
you would gobble
they would gobble
Past Conditional
I would have gobbled
you would have gobbled
he/she/it would have gobbled
we would have gobbled
you would have gobbled
they would have gobbled
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.gobble - the characteristic sound made by a turkey cockgobble - the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
cry - the characteristic utterance of an animal; "animal cries filled the night"
Verb1.gobble - eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!"
eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
garbage down, gobble up, shovel in, bolt down - eat a large amount of food quickly; "The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake"
2.gobble - make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
let loose, let out, utter, emit - express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand"
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gobble

verb devour, swallow, gulp, guzzle, wolf, bolt, cram in, gorge on, pig out on (slang), stuff yourself with He gobbled all the beef stew.
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gobble

verb
To swallow (food or drink) greedily or rapidly in large amounts:
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Translations
صَوْت الدّيك الرومييَلْتَهِم
hltathudrovat
pludresluge
hurukkolzabál
háma í sigklaka
buldurētrīt
hudrovať
çabuk çabuk yutmakhindi sesi çıkarmak

gobble

[ˈgɒbl]
A. Ngluglú m
B. VT (also gobble down, gobble up) → engullir, tragar
C. VI [turkey] → gluglutear
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gobble

[ˈgɒbəl] vt [+ food] → engloutir
gobble down
vt [+ food] → engloutir
gobble up
vt
[+ food] → engloutir
[+ money, resources] → engloutir
[+ group, organization] → engloutir
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gobble

vi
(= eat noisily)schmatzen
(turkey)kollern
n (of turkey)Kollern nt
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gobble

[ˈgɒbl] vt (also gobble down, gobble up) → trangugiare, ingurgitare
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gobble

(ˈgobl) verb
1. to swallow food etc quickly. You'll be sick if you keep gobbling your meals like that.
2. (of turkeys) to make a noise in the throat. We could hear the turkeys gobbling in the farmyard.
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References in classic literature ?
There, in the sight of the Eagle, the Fox gobbled them up.
The plugs only worked, the lions only gobbled. They gobbled the farms, the mines, the factories, an' now they've gobbled the government.
Unfortunately the puppies rushed in and gobbled up all the eggs before he could stop them.
Shimerda egged them on, chuckling while she gobbled her food.
"It's good, anyway," said Zeb, "or those little rascals wouldn't have gobbled it up so greedily."
Whatever little fault they might find with the dishes, they sat at dinner a prodigiously long while; and it would really have made you ashamed to see how they swilled down the liquor and gobbled up the food.
'Just gobbled and gobbled, till I found out how to do it.
Soon Josy developed nobler feelings, for she and Joeykin suddenly fell madly in love with each other across the table, but unaffected by this pretty picture, Joey continued to put whole sausages in his mouth at a time, and then rubbed himself a little lower down, while old Joey secreted them about his person; and when David wasn't looking they both pounced on his sausages, and yet as they gobbled they were constantly running to the top of the stair and screaming to the servant to bring up more sausages.
One day while I was making them I happened to drop one of them, and one of Billina's chickens gobbled it up.
It was unfortunate that the poundman had gobbled Maria's cows.
We had gobbled down three armies one after another, and taken the conceit out of four Austrian generals; one of them, an old man who had white hair, had been roasted like a rat in the straw before Mantua.
These being hastily gobbled up, the chicken spread its wings, and alighted close by Phoebe on the window-sill, where it looked gravely into her face and vented its emotions in a croak.