gobbled in English

verb

1

eat (something) hurriedly and noisily.

one man gobbled up a burger

synonyms: eat greedily, eat hungrily, guzzle, bolt, gulp (down), devour, wolf (down), gorge (oneself) on, tuck into, put away, pack away, demolish, polish off, shovel in/down, stuff one's face with, pig out on, scoff (down/up), scarf (down/up), inhale, gluttonize, gourmandize, ingurgitate

2

(of a male turkey) make a characteristic swallowing sound in the throat.

Back in 1505, turkeys were still gobbling innocently around America.

verb

• eat greedily, eat hungrily, guzzle, bolt, gulp (down), devour, wolf (down), gorge (oneself) on, tuck into, put away, pack away, demolish, polish off, shovel in/down, stuff one's face with, pig out on, scoff (down/up), scarf (down/up), inhale, gluttonize, gourmandize, ingurgitate
• bolt

Use "gobbled" in a sentence

1. Inflation has gobbled up our wage increases.

2. Schmidt hunched his shoulders and gobbled like a turkey.

3. 3 Inflation has gobbled up our wage increases.

4. It gobbled up still untold millions of dollars.

5. 2 The mounting legal costs quickly gobbled up their savings.

6. 12 It gobbled up still untold millions of dollars.

7. 4 The firm's expenses gobbled up 44% of revenues.

8. 6 Hotel costs gobbled up most of their holiday budget.

9. 9 Small family businesses are being gobbled up by larger firms.

10. 10 Small family businesses are often gobbled up by larger firms.

11. 8 We gobbled up all of the cake in one evening.

12. 11 The children gobbled up their food and rushed out to play.

13. 16 But in convention season, Mondays and Tuesdays can get gobbled up quickly.

14. My Bavarian mother in-law gobbled it up saying how good it was

15. ... our rollout of those variable rate packages were gobbled up by the consumers!

16. 7 Air France gobbled up its main French rivals,[www.Sentencedict.com] Air Inter and UTA.

17. Then along came the shredder and the electric-arc steel furnace, which gobbled scrap steel.

18. Synonyms for Chowed include put away, ate, eaten, consumed, ingested, devoured, bolted, gobbled, wolfed and shifted

19. 17 She hadn't realised how quickly the stock had been gobbled up by the hungry flames.

20. Synonyms for Crammed in include gobbled, bolted, devoured, gulped, wolfed, guzzled, Crammed, scoffed, scarfed and demolished

21. The heron gobbled up land crabs which, without the herons, had become a pest on the islands.

22. Synonyms for Chowed down include dined, ate, eaten, ate heartily, eaten heartily, gobbled, gulped, noshed, wolfed and dug in

23. Synonyms for Breakfasted include broke one's fast, broken one's fast, noshed, ate, eaten, devoured, gobbled, gulped, wolfed and consumed

24. 20 Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers.

25. Cook only partially reported what Marana officials did when they gobbled up 200 acres at Tangerine and Thornydale roads.

26. Then it was usually delicatessen, a filled roll or some cheese or fruit, anything that could be gobbled up quickly.

27. Home was far away, a distant place that gobbled up whatever I sent back, ignorant and happy but touchingly hungry to know.

28. 19 The new data shows that many stars are rich in iron, having gobbled up large numbers of asteroids and comets.

29. In all the chaos of a galactic pile-up, plenty of gas should get funneled toward the center and gobbled up, astronomers reasoned.

30. They gobbled salads and tore at scraggy chicken, played cards raucously together and pampered each other's children, until the afternoon lunch-break lulled them into sleep.

31. Reviews “Circe gives us a feminist slant on the Odyssey …Miller makes these age-old texts thrum with contemporary relevance … An airy delight, a novel to be gobbled greedily in a single sitting” – Observer “Enough magic, enchantment, voyages and wonders to satisfy the most jaded sword-and-sorcery palate.Miller approaches Odysseus's story from Circe's point of view, richly evoking