Word Meanings - GOBBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. Swift. 2. To utter like a turkey cock. He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation. Goldsmith. To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture

Additional info about word: GOBBLE

Etym: 1. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. Swift. 2. To utter like a turkey cock. He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation. Goldsmith. To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GOBBLE)

• Devour
• Eat
• consume
• swallow
• gorge
• gobble
• bolt
• absorb

Related words: (words related to GOBBLE)

• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• ABSORBING
  Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• ABSORBITION
  Absorption.
• GORGET
  A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. Gorget hummer , a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat. (more info) 1. A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of
• ABSORBABILITY
  The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham .
• DEVOUR
  1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Some evil beast hath devoured him. Gen. xxxvii. 20. 2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to
• SWALLOWER
  One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.
• ABSORB
  Etym: 1. To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving. 2. To suck up; to drink
• ABSORBENCY
  Absorptiveness.
• DEVOURABLE
  That may be devoured.
• ABSORBENT
  Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground , a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.
• SWALLOWWORT
  See Celandine. A poisonous plant of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort. African swallowwort, a plant of the genus Stapelia.
• GORGELET
  A small gorget, as of a humming bird.
• GORGE
  A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt. (more info) abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser.
• CONSUME
  To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour. If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it. Shak. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
• CONSUMER'S SURPLUS
  The excess that a purchaser would be willing to pay for a commodity over that he does pay, rather than go without the commodity; -- called also consumer's rent. The price which a person pays for a thing can never exceed, and seldom comes up to,
• CONSUMER
  One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.
• SWALLOWTAIL
  A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
• REGORGE
  1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward. 2. To swallow again; to swallow back. Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. DRyden.
• SELF-DEVOURING
  Devouring one's self or itself. Danham.
• COUPE-GORGE
  Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces. Farrow.
• SEA SWALLOW
  See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.
• DISGORGEMENT
  The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall.
• ENGORGE
  Etym: 1. To gorge; to glut. Mir. for Mag. 2. To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. Spenser.
• DEMIGORGE
  Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.
• INGORGE
  See MILTON
• BANK SWALLOW
  See N
• ENGORGED
  Filled to excess with blood or other liquid; congested. (more info) 1. Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.
• ENGORGEMENT
  An overfullness or obstruction of the vessels in some part of the system; congestion. Hoblyn. (more info) 1. The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.