gobble
UK/ˈɡɒbl̩//ˈɡɑbl̩/
gobble verb: to eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up).
Verb (1)
gobble (third-person singular simple present gobbles, present participle gobbling, simple past and past participle gobbled)
- To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
- He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.
- 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
Noun (1)
gobble (plural gobbles)
- Fellatio; a blowjob.
- Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble.2009, Mandasue Heller, The Charmer
- An 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
- 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.
Verb (2)
gobble (third-person singular simple present gobbles, present participle gobbling, simple past and past participle gobbled)
- Of 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 Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 72
- To make the sound of a turkey.
- He […] gobbles out a note of self-approbation.1774, Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature
Noun (2)
gobble (plural gobbles)
- 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 Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 86
Proper noun capitalized: Gobble
Gobble (plural Gobbles)
- A surname.
gobble meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
gobble in Hindi
- to eat hastily or greedily
- हड़पना haṛapnā
gobble in Tamil
- அவசரம் அவசரமாக விழுங்கு, வேகமாக உள்வாங்கு
gobble in Urdu
- بڑے ٹکڑے نگلنا, ڈھکوسنا, ہڑپ کر جانا, جلدی میں نگلنا, لپ لپ کھانا
gobble in Bengali
- গোগ্রাসে গেলা, তাড়াতাড়ি খাওয়া
More languagesFewer languages
- gobble in Malayalam
- ഗുളുഗുളു ശബ്ദത്തോടെ ഇറക്കുക, കബളമായി വിഴുങ്ങുക, കഴിക്കുക, അത്യാർത്തിയോടെ വിഴുങ്ങുക
- gobble in Kannada
- ಮುಕ್ಕು, ಗದಗು, ಗತುಕು, ಗಬಗಬನೆ ತಿನ್ನು
- gobble in Vietnamese
- gộp gộp
Examples of gobble in a sentence
- The city grew over the years by gobbling up land around its limits.
- Millennials are gobbling down plant-based burgers, prompting meat producers to question the health benefits of “ultra-processed imitations.”
- Ives gobbles up Chrissy Nova, and Lia Lor gets lost in the muff of Chloe Foster.
Synonyms of gobble
Forms of gobble
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | gobbles |
| present participle | gobbling |
| past participle | gobbled |
| past | gobbled |
| Noun | |
| plural | gobbles |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Gobbles |
Origin of gobble
From Middle English gobben (“to drink or swallow greedily”), of uncertain origin + -le (frequentative suffix). Middle English gobben is perhaps an alteration of Middle English globben (“to gulp down”), related to English gulpen (“to gulp”). However, compare also French gober.
Onomatopoetic of the sound of a turkey.
Words formed from gobble
Phrases with gobble
Words that rhyme with gobble
Questions about gobble
- What does gobble mean?
- Gobble means to eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up).
- What is gobble in Hindi?
- Gobble in Hindi is हड़पना (haṛapnā). See Gobble meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is gobble?
- Gobble can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce gobble?
- Gobble is pronounced /ˈɡɒbl̩/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of gobble?
- The past tense of gobble is gobbled.
Words near gobble in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gobble (page history and authors); Gobble (page history and authors); gobble (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gobble (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Gobble (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gobble (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); gobble (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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