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Sound made by a turkey cock
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gobble
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gobbled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gobbling .] [Freq. of 2d gob.] To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. --Swift. To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock. He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"make a turkey noise," 1670s, probably imitative, perhaps influenced by gobble (1) or gargle . As a noun from 1781.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB up ▪ Then it was usually delicatessen, a filled roll or some cheese or fruit, anything that could be gobbled up quickly. ▪ It gobbled up still untold millions of dollars. ▪ She hadn't realised how quickly the stock ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The sound of a turkey. 2 (context Scotland slang vulgar English) fellatio; blowjob vb. 1 To make the sound of a turkey. 2 To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff. Often used with up
Usage examples of gobble.
It looked for all the thousand worlds like an everted Sarlacc as it gobbled up the shattered duracrete.
LOST COUNT after the sixth fight, but he could hear, overhead, the pit cleaners circling noisily, gobbling up old fewmets with their iron mouths.
They made the gobbling, hissing sounds that were a cross between a bird call and someone throwing up.
The gobbling went back and forth, as if the two groups were negotiating or something.
There was the usual gobbling, and other sounds -- hissing that hovered right at the edge of sensibility.
Vendacious pushed and pulled her cot onto the forest floor, and the same time gobbling at his guards to keep their positions.
His Samnorsk abruptly stopped, and the hallway was filled with the gobbling chords of Pack talk.
Vendacious pushed and pulled her cot onto the forest floor, at the same time gobbling at his guards to keep their positions.
It had been gobbling up iceteroids for some time, no doubt, so its initial incoming direction was no clue.
This was a messy Eater, gobbling up satellites and leaving twinkling motes.
Bird house with an army of cats, or gobbling pink victuals, romping in the mud?
When all of J-10 was in and had grated noisily against the floor plates of the storage room, the mouth he had entered closed, gobbling up the last traces of him.
Beatrice Leep had given Roy a peanut-butter cookie, which he gobbled hungrily.
Chimmeroon nibbled his piece with proper respect, for majoon deserves respect, but the Trog had all three pieces in his mouth before Chimmeroon had replaced his box beneath his burnoose, and had gobbled and gulped the lot before Chimmeroon was more than begun.
A long way below the suited man, at the center of whatever convoluted orbital path his body was now following, Avalon still rolled on about its business, gobbling megatons of infalling dust and gas, not in the least perturbed by whatever nearby antics some microscopic beings and machines might be up to.