'Gobbling' definitions:
Definition of 'Gobbling'
From: GCIDE
- Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gobbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gobbling.] [Freq. of 2d gob.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. [1913 Webster]
- Supper gobbled up in haste. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock. [1913 Webster]
- He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gobbling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a hog for,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- Apician,
- 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