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Meaning of gobble | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
/ˈɡɒbl̩/

Definitions

  1. A surname.
  2. Fellatio; a blowjob.
    Scotland, slang, vulgar
  3. The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.
  4. An act of eating hastily or greedily.
    rare
  5. 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.

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Examples

“Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble.”
“[…] wrinkling his forehead and moving his jaws and throat violently, as if he expected to choke with each gobble.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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