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Gobbler   /gˈɑbələr/  /gˈɑblər/   Listen
Gobbler

noun
1.
A hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls.
2.
Male turkey.  Synonyms: tom, tom turkey, turkey cock.






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"Gobbler" Quotes from Famous Books



... the turkeys, and asked the old gobbler if he had seen Boy Blue. The old gobbler strutted up and down, saying, "Gobble, gobble, gobble! I have not seen ...
— The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1875 • Various

... said his mistress. "He blows himself up like a turkey gobbler. I need a block and tackle to cinch him right." She shaded her eyes with her hand. "Somebody coming. I'll wait ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm

... of snow in it. Submit on the wall drew her quilted petticoats close down over her feet, and huddled herself into a small space, but her face gleamed keen and resolute out of the depths of a great red hood that belonged to her mother. Her eyes were fixed upon a turkey-gobbler ruffling and bobbing around the back door of the Adams house. The two gambrel-roofed Thompson and Adams houses were built as close together as if the little village of Bridgewater were a city. ...
— Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know • Various

... Wood, farther up the harbor, put up bottles of raspberry wine for me. At this point, more than ever before, I was in the land of good cheer. Mrs. Powell sent on board chutney prepared "as we prepare it in India." Fish, and game were plentiful here, and the voice of the gobbler was heard, and from Pardo, farther up the country, came an enormous cheese; and yet people inquire: "What did you live on? What did ...
— Sailing Alone Around The World • Joshua Slocum



Words linked to "Gobbler" :   tom, eater, turkey, gobble, Meleagris gallopavo, tom turkey, feeder



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