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Definition of gobbling : of Gobble

Synonyms:

devouring, admitting, pocketing, inhaling, ingesting, accepting, engorging, absorbing, assimilating, eating, swallowing, gulping, getting, accessing, taking, inspiring, receiving, acquiring

crowing, chattering, cackling, squawking, cawing, honking, bleating, grunting, neighing, quacking, mooing, squealing, crying, yelping, growling, hooting, bellowing, baying, chirping, snarling, snorting, clucking, purring, whinnying, howling, cuckooing, trilling, twitting, ululating, calling, meowing, warbling, roaring, mewing, bawling, braying, cooing, barking

Usage examples:

• It had often happened that men from the settlements who had gone out for a turkey which had been gobbling, had not returned. - "Betty Zane", Zane Grey.
• He grumbled that he had hoped he had at last found a quiet haven, a place that fitted him like a glove; he protested piercingly against having it " cluttered up with uninteresting, gobbling, gabbling, ordinary people." - "A Woman Named Smith", Marie Conway Oemler.
• But, betwixt the steamboats and the railroads gobbling up everything, and the earth itself taking to spouting oil, things are pretty dead and gone here now. - "Killykinick", Mary T. Waggaman.