Meaning

4 senses
  1. (Scotland, slang, vulgar)Fellatio; a blowjob.

  2. (rare)An act of eating hastily or greedily.

  3. A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.

  4. The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.

    ги́канняhýkannja, ги́кhýk

    the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock

Examples

20 sentences
  1. Tom gobbled down the food.

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  2. The masses are gobbling it up.

    ruПипл хавает.

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  3. He gobbled down the herring salad.

    ruОн уплетал селёдочный салат.

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  4. The children eagerly gobbled up the cake.

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  5. Tom gobbled up everything I had stashed away.

    ruТом слопал всё, что я припрятал.

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Translations

3 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the sound of a turkey:

Origin

From Middle English gobben (“to drink or swallow greedily”), of uncertain origin + -le (fr

From Middle English gobben (“to drink or swallow greedily”), of uncertain origin + -le (frequentative suffix). Middle English gobben is perhaps an alteration of Middle English globben (“to gulp down”), related to English gulpen (“to gulp”). However, compare also French gober.

Onomatopoetic of the sound of a turkey.

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Forms

plural: gobbles
Singulargobble
Pluralgobbles

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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