gobblesome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From gobble +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

gobblesome (comparative more gobblesome, superlative most gobblesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by gobbling
    • 1996, Raj Kumar Sen, Kartik Chandra Roy, Sustainable Economic Development and Environment:
      This pathogenic consumption is a boon to the producers and the businessmen, who exploit the situation with gobblesome advertisement.
    • 2009, Frances Hardinge, Gullstruck Island:
      'About time he spent some time following us, isn't it, Ritterbit my gobblesome?' Jimboly fell back in the crowd, then climbed up the pedestal of a statue of the first Duke of Sedrollo. She settled between the stone duke's great buckled shoes.