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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gobbler

Gobbler \Gob"bler\, n. A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gobbler

1737, "turkey cock," agent noun from gobble (v.2). As "one who eats greedily" 1755, from gobble (v.1).

Wiktionary
gobbler

n. 1 (context slang English) A turkey. 2 # A male turkey; a tom; a stag; a jake. 3 One who eats food very quickly, without decorum.

WordNet
gobbler
  1. n. a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls

  2. male turkey [syn: turkey cock, tom, tom turkey]

Wikipedia
Gobbler

Gobbler is a 1981 clone of Pac-Man for the Apple II, published by On-Line Systems (later to become Sierra Entertainment). It was programmed by Olaf Lubeck who also wrote Cannonball Blitz (1982) for the Apple II, a clone of Donkey Kong.

Gobbler (disambiguation)

Gobbler may refer to:

  • Gobbler, a Pac-man remake for Apple
  • Gobbler, Arkansas, a community in the United States
  • Gobbler, another name for a male turkey
  • Christmas Time -- "Here's the Gobbler!" - painting by Sophie Gengembre Anderson
  • Gobbler sandwich
  • The Gobbler, A club restaurant
  • Gobbler, a murlock mob in World of Warcraft located in the wetlands
  • Gobbler's Knob, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania,
  • Gobblers, the General Oblation Board, a child-stealing religious group in Philip Pullman's novel trilogy His Dark Materials.
  • Gobbler, a web-based file hosting service, specialized for media project files.

Usage examples of "gobbler".

They had never been known to answer back when the Gobbler scolded them, although at times he was very unreasonable.

This was polite of them, but it made the Gobbler more careless than ever of the way in which he spoke.

If a Hen Turkey wanted a chance to lay an egg at this season, she watched the Gobbler and left the flock when his back was turned.

She knew that the Gobbler did not like to have her raise young Turkeys, and that if he could find the nest, he would break every egg in it.

One by one the Hen Turkeys had done this until the Gobbler was left quite alone.

It fluttered her red dress, too, and the Gobbler saw it and became exceedingly angry.

Shanghai Cock strolled over to help his friend, the Gobbler was fairly sputtering with rage.

She gave a graceful flutter and a queer little squawk, and was off before the Gobbler got over his surprise.

He walked up beside the Gobbler and pecked and pulled until three feathers lay on the ground.

Turkey Gobbler never could stand it to have others speak in that way when he was around, so he thought he would show the newcomer how important he was.

The trouble was that because no one knew what these Gobblers looked like, anyone might be a Gobbler, as Lyra pointed out to the appalled gang, who were now all under her sway, collegers and gyptians alike.

When he was out in the barnyard it was just growing dusk, and Donald, through his half-closed eyes, observed a gobbler strutting about.

To his great surprise the gobbler approached him instead of running away.

Thanksgiving surprise for his parents, but when he brought home the big gobbler he was unable longer to keep the secret, and divulged his share in what had happened.

Bunny Brown and his sister Sue did not know what the gobbler was saying.