gobble

present singular third person gobbles · participle present gobbling · participle past gobbled · past gobbled

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

   He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.

   2 more examples

   He began, as his custom, to gobble it up, but when he had eaten for some time, he began to relax a little in his efforts, and at last he sat quite still, with his knife in his hand, looking at the pudding.

   1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 200

   “The farm's had a lot of bad luck, you see. Dad thinks there is a curse on the place.” “Most like. Most like,” said Catweazle, gobbling the banana.

   1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 50

   Synonyms: hork, scarf, scoff, bolt

plural gobbles

1. ScotlandslangvulgarFellatio; a blowjob.

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

   2009, Mandasue Heller, The Charmer

2. rareAn act of eating hastily or greedily.

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

   1983, Liam O'Flaherty, The Assassin, page 53

3. golfA rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.

present singular third person gobbles · participle present gobbling · participle past gobbled · past gobbled

1. ambitransitiveOf a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.

   Not before this performance is over does he [a male capercaillie] settle down to play, and commence gobbling and snapping his beak.

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 72

2. ambitransitiveTo make the sound of a turkey.

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

   1774, Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature

plural gobbles

1. 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.

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 86

plural Gobbles

1. A surname.