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English Dictionary: gobbled by the DICT Development Group
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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]
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