gobble

1. 1.

   eat hastily without proper chewing

   “Don't bolt your food!”

   Synonymsbolt

   Broadereat
2. 2.

   make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys

   Broaderutter

1. 1.

   the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock

   Broadercry

Other forms of gobble

plural

gobbles·

past tense

gobbled·

present participle

gobbling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gobble

What does gobble mean?

gobble means "eat hastily without proper chewing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gobble?

gobble has 2 syllables: gob-ble. The stress falls on "gob". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑbəl/.

What is another word for gobble?

Close synonyms include bolt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gobble a common word?

gobble is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.