different between chomp vs gobble

English

Alternative forms

• chump (dated)

Etymology

U.S. regional variation of “champ” (verb)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t??mp/
• (US) enPR: ch?mp, IPA^(key): /t???mp/
• Hyphenation: chomp
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

chomp (plural chomps)

1. The act of chomping (see below)

Verb

chomp (third-person singular simple present chomps, present participle chomping, simple past and past participle chomped)

1. (intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.

   The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.

2. (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).

Derived terms

• chompy

Related terms

• chomp at the bit

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???bl?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???bl?/
• Rhymes: -?b?l

Etymology 1

From gob +? -le. See also French gober.

Verb

gobble (third-person singular simple present gobbles, present participle gobbling, simple past and past participle gobbled)

1. To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)

   He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.

Synonyms

• (eat quickly or greedily): hork, scarf, scoff

Derived terms

• gobbler
• gobble off
• gobbly

Translations

Noun

gobble (plural gobbles)

1. (Scotland, slang, vulgar) fellatio; blowjob
2. (rare) An act of eating hastily or greedily.
   • 1983, Liam O'Flaherty, The Assassin (page 53)

     […] wrinkling his forehead and moving his jaws and throat violently, as if he expected to choke with each gobble.

3. (golf) 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.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoetic of the sound of a turkey.

Verb

gobble (third-person singular simple present gobbles, present participle gobbling, simple past and past participle gobbled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.
   • 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature

     He […] gobbles out a note of self-approbation.

Translations

Noun

gobble (plural gobbles)

1. The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.

Translations

See also

• cluck
• gobbledegook