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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

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cackle

English

Etymology

From Middle English caclen, cakelen. Compare Dutch kakelen (to cackle), German Low German kakeln (to cackle), German kakeln (to blather), Danish kagle (to cackle), Swedish kackla (to cackle). Compare also Old English cahhetan, ?eahhettan (to laugh loudly; cackle), German gackern (to cackle).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kæk?l/
  • Rhymes: -æk?l

Noun

cackle (countable and uncountable, plural cackles)

  1. The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.
  2. A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
  3. Futile or excessively noisy talk.
    • 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, All Quiet on the Greyfriars Front
      There's no time to waste on silly cackle.
  4. A group of hyenas.

Translations

Verb

cackle (third-person singular simple present cackles, present participle cackling, simple past and past participle cackled)

  1. (intransitive) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
  2. (intransitive) To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
  3. (intransitive) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
  4. (transitive, gambling, slang) To pretend to rattle (dice) in one's hand while gripping them so that they maintain their orientation.
    • 1941, Mignon Good Eberhart, The Third Mystery Book: Six Short Mysteries (page 120)
      Danny cackled the dice furiously in his cupped hand, then rolled them so they stopped inches from Slattery's hands. The result was the same as before - a seven.
    • 2015, Jack Engelhard, The Prince of Dice (page 11)
      [] they spun all right, or so it seemed, and hit the wall all right, or so it seemed, but bottom line was this: The stirring of the dice was merely cackling, the cubes artfully framed so that the spots in the kid's fists showed 4?4 up?right and weren't really rattled but rather, held in control by the pinky, forefinger and thumb; []

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:laugh

Translations

See also

  • cluck

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