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gobble¹

  • /ˈɡɒbl̩/ UK
  • /ˈɡɑbl̩/ US

Rhymes with -ɒbəl

Where it comes from

From Middle English gobben (“to drink or swallow greedily”), of uncertain origin + -le (frequentative suffix). Middle English gobben is perhaps an alteration of Middle English globben (“to gulp down”), related to English gulpen (“to gulp”). However, compare also French gober.

verb gobbles · gobbling · gobbled

  1. To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up) He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.

    Similar: hork, scarf, scoff, bolt

noun gobbles

  1. Scotland, slang, vulgar Fellatio; a blowjob. Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

gobble²

  • /ˈɡɒbl̩/ UK
  • /ˈɡɑbl̩/ US

Rhymes with -ɒbəl

Where it comes from

Onomatopoetic of the sound of a turkey.

verb gobbles · gobbling · gobbled

  1. ambitransitive 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.
  2. ambitransitive To make the sound of a turkey. He […] gobbles out a note of self-approbation.

noun gobbles

  1. 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.

Gobble³

proper noun Gobbles

  1. A surname.

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verb to eat hastily or greedily

日本語食らう kurau
हिन्दीहड़पना haṛapnā
Portuguêsdevorar
Françaisbouffer
Deutschschlingen, verschlingen, hinunterschlingen
Italianoingozzarsi, ingurgitare
Русскийпожирать požiratʹ, поглоща́ть pogloščátʹ
עבריתזָלַל zalál

verb to make the sound of a turkey

Españolgluglú
Portuguêsgrugulejar
Françaisglousser, glouglouter
Deutschkollern
Italianogloglottare
Русскийкулды́кать kuldýkatʹ
Tiếng Việtgộp gộp

noun the sound of a turkey

Italianogloglottio
Românăglu-glu-glu

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@misc{gobble_2026,
  title = {gobble},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gobble},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}