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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 [moby-thes]:

  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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