Gobble
name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Fellatio; a blowjob. Scotland, slang, vulgar
"Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble."
- 2 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."
- 3 the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock wordnet
- 4 An act of eating hastily or greedily. rare
"[…] wrinkling his forehead and moving his jaws and throat violently, as if he expected to choke with each gobble."
- 5 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.
- 1 To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
"He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes."
- 2 Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds. ambitransitive
"Not before this performance is over does he [a male capercaillie] settle down to play, and commence gobbling and snapping his beak."
- 3 make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys wordnet
- 4 To make the sound of a turkey. ambitransitive
"He […] gobbles out a note of self-approbation."
- 5 eat hastily without proper chewing wordnet
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"Don't gobble all the food up before I get back."
Etymology
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.
Onomatopoetic of the sound of a turkey.
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