gobble

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɒbl̩/    美 /ˈɡɑbl̩/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Fellatio; a blowjob. Scotland,slang,vulgar
    — Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble.
  2. The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.
    — But while the hen continued her cackle he finished his first play, and had commenced the gobble of his second, when a twig cracked beneath my feet.
  3. An act of eating hastily or greedily. rare
    — […] wrinkling his forehead and moving his jaws and throat violently, as if he expected to choke with each gobble.
  4. A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.
动词 v.
  1. To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
    — He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.
  2. Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds. ambitransitive
    — Not before this performance is over does he [a male capercaillie] settle down to play, and commence gobbling and snapping his beak.
  3. To make the sound of a turkey. ambitransitive
    — He […] gobbles out a note of self-approbation.

词形变化

gobbles present,singular,third-person gobbling participle,present gobbled participle,past gobbled past gobbles plural gobbles present,singular,third-person gobbling participle,present gobbled participle,past gobbled past gobbles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
gobble hole gobble-pipe

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gobben (“to drink or swallow greedily”), of uncertain origin + -le (frequentative suffix). Middle English gobben is perhaps an alteration of Middle English globben (“to gulp down”), related to English gulpen (“to gulp”). However, compare also French gober.
词源 2
Onomatopoetic of the sound of a turkey.
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