Synonyms for gobble
ˈgɒb əlgob·ble

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1. gobbleverb

   the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock

2. gobble, boltverb

   eat hastily without proper chewing

   "Don't bolt your food!"

   Synonyms:
   bolt out, beetle off, abscond, make off, absquatulate, go off, run off, run out, bolt, decamp

3. gobbleverb

   make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys

   Synonyms:
   bolt

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1. gobbleverb

   Synonyms:
   swallow (greedily), bolt, gulp

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1. Socrates:

   Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

2. Socrates:

   The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

3. John Gulledge:

   My greatest personal qualities I possessed during that time were my availability and eagerness to learn, i used to gobble up hours from other workers that had other plans or simply did not want to work.

4. Douglas MacArthur:

   Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -­ kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor ­- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

5. Clive Lewis:

   Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.