gobble : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gobble	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for gobble
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gobble n the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock v eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!" Synonym(s): gobble, bolt make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gobbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gobbling}.] [Freq. of 2d gob.] 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]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. i. 1. To eat greedily. 2. To make a noise like that of a turkey cock. --Prior.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gobble \Gob"ble\, n. A noise made in the throat. Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble. --Mrs. Gore.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
gobble vt. 1. To consume, usu. used with `up'. "The output spy gobbles characters out of a {tty} output buffer." 2. To obtain, usu. used with `down'. "I guess I'll gobble down a copy of the documentation tomorrow." See also {snarf}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
gobble 1. To consume, usually used with "up". "The output spy gobbles characters out of a {tty} output buffer." 2. To obtain, usually used with "down". "I guess I'll gobble down a copy of the documentation tomorrow." See also {snarf}. [{Jargon File}]