Crossword clues for gobbling
gobbling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gobbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gobbling.] [Freq. of 2d gob.]
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To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
Supper gobbled up in haste.
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To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation.
--Goldsmith.To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. [Slang]
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of eating greedily and noisily. 2 The sound of a turkey. vb. (present participle of gobble English)
Usage examples of "gobbling".
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.
Bunnydog gobblings and snuffler gulps can be heard in nearby chambers, and occasionally, even the purple wail of a distressed gastropede.