Definitions of gobble [ˈgɒb əl]

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Definition of 'gobble'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) gobble
to eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.

2. gobble
to seize upon eagerly (often fol. by up):
He gobbled up all the news.

3. (v.i.) gobble
to eat hastily.

4. (v.i.) gobble
to make the throaty cry of a male turkey.

5. (n.) gobble
the cry itself.

Etymology: (1670–80; var. of gabble)

Definition of 'gobble'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) gobble
the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock

2. (verb) gobble, bolt
eat hastily without proper chewing
"Don't bolt your food!"

3. (verb) gobble
make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys

Definition of 'gobble'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) gobble
a noise made in the throat

2. (verb) gobble
to swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp

3. (verb) gobble
to utter (a sound) like a turkey cock

4. (verb) gobble
to eat greedily

5. (verb) gobble
to make a noise like that of a turkey cock

Definitions of 'gobble'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. gobble
1. To consume, usu.: used with ‘up’. “The output spy gobbles characters out of a tty output buffer.”

2. To obtain, usu.: used with ‘down’. “I guess I'll gobble down a copy of the documentation tomorrow.” See also snarf.

Translation of 'gobble'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to swallow food etc quickly You'll be sick if you keep gobbling your meals like that.
Afrikaans: gulsig eet	Arabic: يَلْتَهِم	Bulgarian: нагъвам
Brazilian: devorar	Czech: hltat	German: hinunterschlingen
Danish: sluge	Greek: καταβροχθίζω	Spanish: engullir, devorar, zampar
Estonian: kugistama	Farsi: بلعیدن؛ با ولع خوردن	Finnish: hotkia
French: engloutir	Hebrew: לִזלוֹל	Hindi: जल्दी और आवाज करके खाना
Croatian: halapljivo gutati	Hungarian: zabál	Indonesian: melahap
Icelandic: háma í sig	Italian: ingoiare	Japanese: がつがつ食べる
Korean: 게걸스럽게 먹다	Lithuanian: ryti	Latvian: rīt
Malay: makan dengan gelojoh	Dutch: schrokken, slokken	Norwegian: sluke, lange i seg
Polish: pożerać	Persian: بلعیدن؛ با ولع خوردن	Pashto: نغرل، اپيلل، په حرص خوړل،
Portuguese: devorar	Romanian: aînfuleca	Russian: лопать
Slovak: hltať	Slovenian: hlastno goltati	Serbian: halapljivo pojesti
Swedish: glufsa i sig, sluka	Thai: กลืนกินอย่างรวดเร็ว	Turkish: çabuk çabuk yutmak
Taiwanese: 狼吞虎嚥	Ukrainian: їсти пожадливо; пожирати	Urdu: جلدی میں کھانا ، گٹکنا
Vietnamese: nuốt lấy nuốt để	Chinese: 狼吞虎咽
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