gobbling 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 "gobbling" in a sentence

1. Gobbling Down Halloween Goodies

2. Another advertiser asks: “Room air conditioner gobbling energy?”

3. They "gobble", and Gore's gobbling soon turnssintos"garble".

4. We are all given T-shirts that portray Erap as a crocodile, gobbling money.

5. Not that it stopped her from gobbling up every cultural titbit dropped before her.

6. 1 Banc One of Ohio has built an empire in the mid-west by gobbling up smaller banks.

7. Synonyms for Chowing include putting away, eating, consuming, ingesting, devouring, bolting, gobbling, wolfing, shifting and swallowing

8. Synonyms for Chugalugging include gulping down, swallowing, gobbling, downing, swilling, wolfing, chugging, stuffing, devouring and swigging

9. 15 She was trying to catch the bus that was greedily gobbling up passengers at an angle across the street.

10. 18 The government is not some sinister monster gobbling up taxpayers' money simply to satisfy its own insatiable appetite.

11. She was trying to catch the bus that was greedily gobbling up passengers at an angle across the street.

12. Because zebra mussels are filter-feeders par excellence, they quickly clear murky lake waters by gobbling up the floating algae.

13. The Bowfin fish is a large and tenacious predator that lurks within America’s freshwater bodies, gobbling up smaller prey that passes by

14. These extraordinarily dense objects are usually found sitting at the center of a galaxy violently gobbling up matter, so it was a surprise when Astronomers spotted …

15. Confluent is gobbling up chunks of the middleware market from IBM and Oracle. Will it go public in a few years or get acquired before then?

16. Your gardening answers; How to give your hydrangeas the blues These decomposing organisms crank up their metabolism the same way we do, gobbling up oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide, which Acidifies waters to a pH as low as 7.4 in summer months.

17. Classic scenes are recreated faithfully - Bruce Bogtrotter gobbling up an entire chocolate cake, Lavender sneaking a newt in Miss Trunchbull's water jug, poor Eric getting his lugs stretched and Amanda being swung around by her pigtails all elicit plenty of laughs - while Matilda's telekinetic powers come to life convincingly after her flashing, red rage subsides into muted calm.