gobbling
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gobbled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gobbling}.] [Freq. of 2d gob.]
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1. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
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Supper gobbled up in haste. --Swift.
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2. To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
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He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation.
--Goldsmith.
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{To gobble up}, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture
suddenly. [Slang]
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "gobbling":
Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, avaricious, avid,
bolting, bottomless, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent,
crapulous, devouring, edacious, esurient, glutting, gluttonizing,
gluttonous, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling,
guzzling, hoggish, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate,
limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous,
overgreedy, piggish, polyphagic, quenchless, rapacious, ravening,
ravenous, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable,
unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable,
unslaked, venal, voracious, wolfing
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