gobble

Etymology 1

From gob + -le. See also French gober.

verb

  1. To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
    He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.

noun

  1. (Scotland, slang, vulgar) Fellatio; a blowjob.
    Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble. 2009, Mandasue Heller, The Charmer
  2. (rare) 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
  3. (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.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoetic of the sound of a turkey.

verb

  1. (transitive, intransitive) 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
  2. (transitive, intransitive) 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

  1. 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

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