gobbled

Verb (1)

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.

   Synonyms:

   hork, scarf, scoff, bolt

Verb (2)

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

1. (ambitransitive) 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 Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 72
2. (ambitransitive) 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

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