gobbling

plural gobblings

1. The act of eating greedily and noisily.

   Likewise, when Nell's grandfather badgers Nell to say publicly that she knows he loves her, Kit grotesquely announces his affirmation of their filial bond of affection in between gluttonous gobblings […]

   1994, Gail Turley Houston, Consuming Fictions

2. The sound of a turkey vocalising.

   The farmyard was dark and he tiptoed across it so that the turkeys wouldn't set up their gobbling and flapping.

   1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 24

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   The imitations of the gobblings and other sounds of wild turkeys, often brought this keen-eyed and ever watchful tenant of the forest within reach of the rifle.

   1837, The Western Messenger

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gobble