gobble

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive), Interjection
• HYPHEN: gob=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

gobble, v. t. [Freq. of 2d gob.].

•  To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.  [1913 Webster]

  "Supper gobbled up in haste."  [1913 Webster]
•  To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.  [1913 Webster]

  "He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation."  [1913 Webster]

To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. [Slang]

gobble, v. i. 

•  To eat greedily.  [1913 Webster]
•  To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.  Prior.  [1913 Webster]

gobble, n. 

 A noise made in the throat.  [1913 Webster]
"Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gobble, v.tr. & intr. eat hurriedly and noisily.

Derivative

gobbler n.

gobble, v.intr.
1 (of a turkeycock) make a characteristic swallowing sound in the throat.
2 make such a sound when speaking, esp. when excited, angry, etc.

Etymology

imit.: perh. based on GOBBLE(1)

THESAURUS

gobble

ablate, absorb, assimilate, batten, bleed white, bolt, bolt down, bring to ruin, burn up, cackle, call, carol, caw, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, condemn, confound, consume, coo, cram, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, damn, deal destruction, decimate, deplete, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, digest, dissolve, drain, drain of resources, drink, drum, eat, eat up, engorge, engulf, erode, exhaust, expend, finish, finish off, gabble, gaggle, glut, gluttonize, gobble up, gorge, gormandize, guggle, gulp, gulp down, gut, gut with fire, guttle, guzzle, havoc, honk, hoo, hoot, imbibe, impoverish, incinerate, ingest, ingurgitate, lay in ruins, lay waste, live to eat, peep, pip, pipe, quack, ravage, raven, roll, ruin, ruinate, scold, shipwreck, sing, slop, slosh, spend, squander, squawk, stuff, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, swill, swill down, throw into disorder, trill, tweet, twit, twitter, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, use up, vandalize, vaporize, warble, waste, waste away, wear away, whistle, wolf, wolf down, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

ROGET THESAURUS

gobble

Ululation

VB cry, roar, bellow, blare, rebellow, growl, snarl, bark, bow-wow, yelp, bay, bay at the moon, yap, yip, yipe, growl, yarr, yawl, snarl, howl, grunt, gruntle, snort, squeak neigh, whinny, bray, mew, mewl, meow, purr, caterwaul, pule, baa, bleat, low, moo, troat, croak, peep, coo, gobble, quack, honk, gaggle, guggle, crow, caw, squawk, screech cackle, cluck, clack, chuck, chuckle, hoot, hoo, chirp, cheep, chirrup, twitter, cuckoo, warble, trill, tweet, pipe, whistle, hum, buzz, hiss, blatter, ratatat.