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Past tense of gobble

regular verb

The past tense of gobble is gobbled. The past participle is also gobbled.

Forms of gobble

Base form (V1)gobble /ˈɡɒbl̩/
Past tense (V2)gobbled
Past participle (V3)gobbled
Present participlegobbling
Third person singulargobbles

Gobbled in a sentence

  • He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.
  • The fire gulped up the kitchen cabinets and gobbled up the dazzling living room furniture.2015, Stephanie A. Pointing, From Ashes to Roses. From the entry gulp up
  • One after another, gobfuls of mash are gobbled up.1989, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, published 1998, page 121. From the entry gobful
  • There will be another four waiting to be gobbled there, as well as a whole new mazeful of cheese bits.1982, Len Albin, Secrets of the video game super stars, page 36. From the entry mazeful
  • Folks gobbled this book up because it packed intricate puzzles, propulsive plotwork, clammy paranoia, cheeky irreligiousness and armchair globetrotting into one teasingly easy-to-read brain snack.2009 June 20, Geoff Pevere, “The Century So Far: Books”, in Toronto Star. From the entry plotwork

Meaning of gobble

  1. verb To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up).
  2. noun Fellatio; a blowjob.
  3. noun An act of eating hastily or greedily.

Full definition of gobble

Questions about the past tense of gobble

What is the past tense of gobble?
The past tense of gobble is gobbled.
What is the past participle of gobble?
The past participle of gobble is gobbled.
Is gobble a regular or irregular verb?
Gobble is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gobble (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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