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Gobble   /gˈɑbəl/   Listen
verb
Gobble  v. t.  (past & past part. gobbled; pres. part. gobbling)  
1.
To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. "Supper gobbled up in haste."
2.
To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock. "He... gobbles out a note of self-approbation."
To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. (Slang)


Gobble  v. i.  
1.
To eat greedily.
2.
To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.


noun
Gobble  n.  A noise made in the throat. "Ducks and geese... set up a discordant gobble."





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"Gobble" Quotes from Famous Books



... it is terrible, and yet the rich, the gilded ones, the bloated aristocrats, gobble up everything in front of our very eyes... All soldiers—friend and foe—ought to throw down their weapons and go on strike, so that this war which enslaves the people more ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs
... eyes with the back of one hand. I think it's shamed she is." A burst of laughter rewarded the young sinner, and he darted off for home to gobble down ...
— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin
... this part of the nature, is a vampyrism which is constantly on the alert to see what, and how much it can gobble up for its own delectation. This is the lowest grade. It begins with the selfism of the individual, its manifestations are named lust. It seeks expression through the sensuous nature, but extends ...
— Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul • Anna Bishop Scofield
... baby-language," he observed presently; "we are studying the ape-vocabulary, you know. Dot has got quite a little language of her own. As far as I can make out each sentence is finished off with a 'gurgle-doe.' Something between the 'gobble, gobble' of a turkey and the coo of the ring-dove. I suppose it all ...
— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... made fuel for hell-fire. You won't get a square deal; they're going to get the fat anyhow. They've got the best claims spotted, an' men posted to jump them at the first chance. Oh, they're feathering their nests all right. They're like a lot of greedy pike just waiting to gobble down all they can. A man can't buy wine at twenty dollars per, and make dance-hall Flossies presents of diamond tararas on a government salary. That's what a lot of them are doing. Wine and women, and their wives an' daughters outside thinkin' ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service


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