gobble

«gobble» in Mova's school dictionary: To eat something very quickly and greedily — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (gobble, gobbles, gobbled, gobbling); noun (a gobble — the turkey sound)

meaning for a pupil

1) To eat something very quickly and greedily. tree →

2) (of a turkey) To make the throaty gobble-gobble sound. tree →

3) To gobble up is to use up or take over something quickly, like money or land. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, parents tell children not to gobble their food. In stories, the wolf gobbles up Grandma. On farms and at Thanksgiving, turkeys gobble. In money talk, fees gobble up savings. Phrases: gobble up, gobble down.

examples

• Don't gobble your dinner; chew slowly. tree →
• The wolf gobbled up Little Red Riding Hood's grandma. tree →
• The turkey gobbled at the farmer. tree →
• The dog gobbled the sausage before anyone could stop it. tree →
• Big companies gobble up little shops. tree →
• My game gobbles up all the phone's battery. tree →
• Whereupon he tore open Drumikin and gobbled up Lambikin. tree →

note

Regular verb: gobbled. Gobbledygook (or gobbledegook) means nonsense language. Eating too fast can make you choke, so chew well.

In the corpora

• Cartoon ducks gobble whole loaves of bread and cartoon swans break people's arms.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gobble» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.