gobble

7 definitions found

gobble - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. i.
     1. To eat greedily.
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     2. To make a noise like that of a turkey cock. --Prior.
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  Gobble \Gob"ble\, n.
     A noise made in the throat.
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           Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble.
                                                    --Mrs. Gore.
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  Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gobbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Gobbling.] [Freq. of 2d gob.]
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     1. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
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              Supper gobbled up in haste.           --Swift.
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     2. To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
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              He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
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     To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture
        suddenly. [Slang]
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gobble - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  gobble
      n 1: the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
      v 1: eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!"
           [syn: gobble, bolt]
      2: make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys

gobble - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  gobble
  
     1. To consume, usually used with "up".  "The output
     spy gobbles characters out of a tty output buffer."
  
     2. To obtain, usually used with "down".  "I guess I'll gobble
     down a copy of the documentation tomorrow."
  
     See also snarf.
  
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gobble - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  gobble
   vt.
  
     1. To consume, usu.: used with `up'. "The output spy gobbles
     characters out of a tty output buffer."
  
     2. To obtain, usu.: used with `down'. "I guess I'll gobble down a
  copy
     of the documentation tomorrow." See also snarf.
  

gobble - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  128 Moby Thesaurus words for "gobble":
     ablate, absorb, assimilate, batten, bleed white, bolt, bolt down,
     bring to ruin, burn up, cackle, call, carol, caw, chatter, cheep,
     chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, cluck,
     cock-a-doodle-doo, condemn, confound, consume, coo, cram, croak,
     cronk, crow, cuckoo, damn, deal destruction, decimate, deplete,
     depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, digest,
     dissolve, drain, drain of resources, drink, drum, eat, eat up,
     engorge, engulf, erode, exhaust, expend, finish, finish off,
     gabble, gaggle, glut, gluttonize, gobble up, gorge, gormandize,
     guggle, gulp, gulp down, gut, gut with fire, guttle, guzzle, havoc,
     honk, hoo, hoot, imbibe, impoverish, incinerate, ingest,
     ingurgitate, lay in ruins, lay waste, live to eat, peep, pip, pipe,
     quack, ravage, raven, roll, ruin, ruinate, scold, shipwreck, sing,
     slop, slosh, spend, squander, squawk, stuff, suck dry, swallow,
     swallow up, swill, swill down, throw into disorder, trill, tweet,
     twit, twitter, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave,
     use up, vandalize, vaporize, warble, waste, waste away, wear away,
     whistle, wolf, wolf down, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck