GOBBLE

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. Swift.

2.
v.

To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock. He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation. Goldsmith. To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. [Slang]

3.
v.

To eat greedily.

4.
v.

To make a noise like that of a turkey cock. Prior.

5.
n.

A noise made in the throat. Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble. Mrs. Gore.

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