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- Dictionarygob·ble/ˈɡäbəl/
verb
- 1. eat (something) hurriedly and noisily: "one man gobbled up a burger"
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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.
To gobble is to eat quickly — really quickly. When you gobble your dinner, you hardly even chew your food.
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. Gobble down and gobble up mean the same as gobble. There were dangerous beasts in the river that might gobble you up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] [ Also VERB PARTICLE noun] Phrasal verbs:
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.
gobble definition: to eat food very quickly. Learn more.
The earliest known use of the verb gobble is in the late 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for gobble is from 1680, in the writing of Robert Morden, maker of maps and globes. gobble is probably an imitative or expressive formation.
Jun 2, 2024 · gobble (third-person singular simple present gobbles, present participle gobbling, simple past and past participle gobbled) To eat hastily or greedily ; to scoff or scarf ( often used with up ) He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.
