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gobble

UK /ˈɡɒbl̩/US /ˈɡɑbl̩/

noun 4
verb 3
forms 3
phrases 2

noun4

•
The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.
- But while the hen continued her cackle he finished his first play, and had commenced the gobble of his second, when a twig cracked beneath my feet. — 1886
•
(rare) An act of eating hastily or greedily.
- […] wrinkling his forehead and moving his jaws and throat violently, as if he expected to choke with each gobble. — 1983
•
(slang, vulgar) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble. — 2009
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.

verb3

•
To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
- He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.
•
Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
- Not before this performance is over does he [a male capercaillie] settle down to play, and commence gobbling and snapping his beak. — 1886
•
To make the sound of a turkey.
- He […] gobbles out a note of self-approbation. — 1774

forms

gobbled · gobbling · gobbles

Phrases with gobble

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