gobble

See also: Gobble

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒbəl

Etymology 1

From gob +‎ -le. See also French gober.

Verb

1. To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)

   He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.

   • Jonathan Swift

     supper gobbled up in haste

Synonyms

• (eat quickly or greedily): hork, scarf, scoff

Derived terms

• gobbler
• gobble off
• gobbly

Translations

to eat hastily or greedily

• Bulgarian: плюскам (bg) (pljuskam), нагъвам (bg) (nagǎvam)
• Catalan: endrapar (ca), cruspir (ca)
• Finnish: ahmia (fi), hotkia (fi), ahmaista
• French: bouffer (fr)
• German: schlingen (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: λαφύσσω (laphússō), βρύχω (brúkhō)

• Hungarian: zabál (hu)
• Icelandic: éta (is)
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• Irish: plac, alp, slog siar
• Italian: ingozzarsi, ingurgitare (it)
• Latin: tuburcinor
• Maori: kaihoro, hāupaupa, karapetau, horohororē
• Polish: żreć (pl)
• Portuguese: devorar (pt)
• Russian: пожирать (ru) (požiratʹ), поглоща́ть (ru) (pogloščátʹ)
• Spanish: engullir (es) m, embuchar (es)
• Turkish: atıştırmak (tr)
• Westrobothnian:

Noun

gobble (plural gobbles)

1. (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.

2. (rare) An act of eating hastily or greedily.
   • 1983, Liam O'Flaherty, The Assassin (page 53)

     […] wrinkling his forehead and moving his jaws and throat violently, as if he expected to choke with each gobble.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoetic of the sound of a turkey.

Verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.
   • Goldsmith

     He […] gobbles out a note of self-approbation.

Translations

to make the sound of a turkey

• Bulgarian: крякам (bg) (krjakam)
• Czech: hudrovat
• Finnish: kaakattaa (fi)
• French: glousser (fr), glouglouter (fr)
• German: kollern (de)
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• Portuguese: grugulejar
• Russian: кулды́кать (ru) impf (kuldýkatʹ)
• Spanish: gluglú m
• Turkish: hindi sesi çıkarmak
• Vietnamese: gộp gộp

Noun

gobble (plural gobbles)

1. The sound of a turkey.
2. (golf) 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.

Translations

the sound of a turkey

• Finnish: kaakatus (fi)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
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• Hungarian: hurukkolás

blowjob

• Russian: миньет (ru) (minʹjet)
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See also

• cluck
• gobbledegook