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- Dictionarygobble/ˈɡɒbl/
verb
- 1. eat (something) hurriedly and noisily: "he gobbled up the rest of his sandwich"
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to eat quickly and sometimes with a lot of noise: [ M ] She gobbled up/down her lunch and hurried back. gobble verb (MAKE NOISE) [ I ] to make the sound of a male turkey (= a large bird) (Definition of gobble from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of gobble.
The meaning of GOBBLE is to swallow or eat greedily. How to use gobble in a sentence.
verb (used with object) , gob·bled, gob·bling. to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp. Synonyms: devour, bolt. to seize upon eagerly (often followed by up ): After being gone for so long, they gobbled up all the local news.
Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense gobbles , present participle gobbling , past tense, past participle gobbled. verb. If you gobble food, you eat it quickly and greedily. Pete gobbled all the stew. [VERB noun] Synonyms: devour, swallow, gulp, guzzle More Synonyms of gobble.
1. (when: tr, often foll by up) to eat or swallow (food) hastily and in large mouthfuls. 2. informal (often foll by: up) to snatch. [C17: probably from gob 1] gobble. ( ˈɡɒbəl) n. (Zoology) the loud rapid gurgling sound made by male turkeys. interj. an imitation of this sound. vb. (Zoology) ( intr) (of a turkey) to make this sound.
to eat quickly and sometimes with a lot of noise: [ M ] She gobbled up/down her lunch and hurried back. gobble verb (MAKE NOISE) [ I ] to make the sound of a male turkey (= a large bird) (Definition of gobble from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of gobble.
Definition of gobble verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
