gobble

English

Etymology

Onomatopoetic of the sound from a turkey.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒbəl

Verb

gobble (third-person singular simple present gobbles, present participle gobbling, simple past and past participle gobbled)

1. To make the sound of a turkey.
2. To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff. Often used with up

   He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.

Derived terms

• gobbler
• gobble off
• gobbly

Translations

to make the sound of a turkey

• French: glousser (fr), glouglouter (fr)
• German: kollern (de)

• Spanish: gluglú (es) m
• Turkish: hindi sesi çıkarmak (tr)

to eat hastily or greedily

• French: bouffer (fr)
• German: schlingen (de)
• Hungarian: zabál (hu)

• Maori: kaihoro (mi)
• Russian: пожирать (ru) (požiratʹ), поглощать (ru) (pogloščatʹ)
• Spanish: engullir (es) m
• Turkish: atıştırmak (tr)

See also

• cluck
• gobbledegook

Noun

gobble (plural gobbles)

1. The sound of a turkey.
2. (Scotland, slang, vulgar) fellatio; blowjob
   • 2009, Mandasue Heller, The Charmer

     Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble.

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