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Gobble

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A noise made in the throat. Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble. Mrs. Gore.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. Swift.

2. To utter (a sound) 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. [Slang]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To eat greedily.

2. To make a noise like that of a turkey cock. Prior.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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