GOBBLE


Meaning of GOBBLE in English

gob ‧ ble /ˈɡɒb ə l $ ˈɡɑː-/ BrE AmE verb informal

[ Sense 1: Date: 1600-1700 ; Origin: Probably from gob ]

[ Sense 2: Date: 1600-1700 ; Origin: From the sound ]

1 . ( also gobble up/down ) [intransitive and transitive] to eat something very quickly, especially in an impolite or ↑ greedy way SYN wolf :

Don’t gobble your food!

She gobbled down her lunch.

2 . [intransitive] to make a sound like a ↑ turkey

—gobble noun [countable]

gobble sth↔ up phrasal verb informal

1 . if one company gobbles up a smaller company, it buys it and takes control of it:

Air France gobbled up its main French rivals, Air Inter and UTA.

2 . to quickly use a lot of a supply of something such as money or land:

Inflation has gobbled up our wage increases.

3 . to eat something very quickly, especially in an impolite or ↑ greedy way:

We gobbled up all of the cake in one evening.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.