different between fightingwords vs gobble

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