different between gobble vs bobble

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?b?l/
• Rhymes: -?b?l
• Homophone: bauble (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

bobble (plural bobbles)

1. A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
2. (Britain) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
3. (informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
4. (knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
   • 2008, Claire Compton, Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible (page 45)

     From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.

5. A wobbling motion.

Derived terms

• bobble hat
• bobblehead
• bobbly
• head bobble

Translations

Verb

bobble (third-person singular simple present bobbles, present participle bobbling, simple past and past participle bobbled)

1. (intransitive) To bob up and down.
2. (US) To make a mistake in.
3. (intransitive) To roll slowly.
   • November 17 2012, BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [1]

     A neat interchange between Mikel Arteta and Wilshere set up Podolski and his finish bobbled into the net via Gallas.

Derived terms

• bobbler

Translations