gobble
verb/ˈɡɒbl/
/ˈɡɑːbl/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they gobble | /ˈɡɒbl/ /ˈɡɑːbl/ |
| he / she / it gobbles | /ˈɡɒblz/ /ˈɡɑːblz/ |
| past simple gobbled | /ˈɡɒbld/ /ˈɡɑːbld/ |
| past participle gobbled | /ˈɡɒbld/ /ˈɡɑːbld/ |
| -ing form gobbling | /ˈɡɒblɪŋ/ /ˈɡɑːblɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] to eat something very fast, in a way that people consider rude or greedy synonym wolf
- gobble (something) Don't gobble your food like that!
- gobble something up/down They gobbled down all the sandwiches.
- He gobbled up the last of the chocolates.
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- [intransitive] when a turkey gobbles, it makes a noise in its throat
Word Originverb sense 1 and gobble something up. early 17th cent.: probably from gob.verb sense 2 late 17th cent.: imitative, perhaps influenced by gobble ‘eat something quickly’.
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