gobble

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• Rhymes: -ɒbəl

From gob +‎ -le. See also French gober.

gobble (third-person singular simple present gobbles, present participle gobbling, simple past and past participle gobbled)

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

   He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.

   • Jonathan Swift

     supper gobbled up in haste

• (eat quickly or greedily): hork, scarf, scoff

• gobbler
• gobble off
• gobbly

gobble (plural gobbles)

1. (Scotland, slang, vulgar) fellatio; blowjob
   • 2009, Mandasue Heller, The Charmer

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

Onomatopoetic of the sound of a turkey.

gobble (third-person singular simple present gobbles, present participle gobbling, simple past and past participle gobbled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.
   • Goldsmith

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

gobble (plural gobbles)

1. The sound of a turkey.
2. (golf) 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.

• cluck
• gobbledegook