GOBBLE UP • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Gobble up

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/gˈɑbəl əp/ Listen

verb

Gobble v. t. (past & past part. gobbled; pres. part. gobbling)

To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. "Supper gobbled up in haste."

To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock. "He... gobbles out a note of self-approbation."

To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. (Slang)

See images of 'Gobble up'

Etymology of 'Gobble up'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Gobble up" Quotes from Famous Books

... their end, why not?" "My friend," said I, "The Blanket and the Boa— You will conceive me—are a type, yes, just a type, Of this our day. The dumb and monstrous, tasteless appetite Of stupid Boa, to gobble up for food What needs must scour or suffocate, Not nourish! My friend, let the wool of that one blanket Warm but the back of one live sheep, And the Boa would bolt the animal entire, And flourish on his meal, transmuting flesh and bones, And turning ...

— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton

... he set off home, and the serpent and his sister saw that four were now trotting behind him. "Look!" said the serpent, "if there are not four running behind him! Shall we never be able to destroy him? I tell thee what. Ask him to get thee hare's milk; perhaps his beasts will gobble up the hare before he can milk it." So he turned himself into a needle again, and she fastened him in the wall, only a little higher up, so that the dogs should not get at him. Then, when the little Tsar dismounted ...

— Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales • Anonymous