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to gobble
01
to eat something quickly and greedily, often making loud and rapid swallowing sounds
Transitive: to gobble food
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
gobble
3rd person singular
gobbles
Present participle
gobbling
Past simple
gobbled
Past participle
gobbled
Examples
The children tend to gobble their candy as soon as they get it on Halloween.
02
to make a rapid, throaty, and guttural noise made in a series of gurgling clucks sound
Intransitive
Examples
The turkey gobbled loudly in the yard, announcing its presence.
Gobble
01
the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
gobbles
Lexical Tree
gobbler
gobble
