gobble

Plural: gobbles

Noun

the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
Fellatio; a blowjob.
An act of eating hastily or greedily.
A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.
The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.

Verb

Verb Forms: gobbled, gobbling, gobbles

To eat something quickly and often noisily; to make a turkey's sound.
eat hastily without proper chewing
make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
To make the sound of a turkey.

Examples

He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.
He tried to GOBBLE up the remaining tiles before his Words With Friends opponent could use them.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English gobben (“to drink or swallow greedily”), of uncertain origin + -le (frequentative suffix). Middle English gobben is perhaps an alteration of Middle English globben (“to gulp down”), related to English gulpen (“to gulp”). However, compare also French gober.

Synonyms

bolt, hork, scarf, scoff

Scrabble Score: 11

gobble: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
gobble: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gobble: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

gobble: valid Words With Friends Word