gobble

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see also: Gobble

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɡɒbl̩/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈɡɑbl̩/

Verb

gobble (gobbles, present participle gobbling; past and past participle gobbled)

1. To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf i often used with up

   He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.

Synonyms

• (eat quickly or greedily) hork, scarf, scoff

Translations

• French: bouffer
• German: schlingen
• Italian: ingozzarsi, ingurgitare
• Portuguese: devorar
• Russian: пожирать
• Spanish: engullir, embuchar

Noun

gobble (plural gobbles)

1. (Scotland, slang, vulgar) fellatio; blowjob
2. (rare) An act of eating hastily or greedily.
   • 1983, Liam O'Flaherty, The Assassin (page 53)

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

Verb

gobble (gobbles, present participle gobbling; past and past participle gobbled)

1. (ambitransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.

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

Translations

• French: glousser, glouglouter
• German: kollern
• Portuguese: grugulejar
• Russian: кулды́кать
• Spanish: gluglú

Noun

gobble (plural gobbles)

1. The sound of a turkey.
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.

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Gobble

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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