gobbling

English

Noun

gobbling (plural gobblings)

  1. The act of eating greedily and noisily.
    • 1994, Gail Turley Houston, Consuming Fictions:
      Likewise, when Nell's grandfather badgers Nell to say publicly that she knows he loves her, Kit grotesquely announces his affirmation of their filial bond of affection in between gluttonous gobblings […]
  2. The sound of a turkey vocalising.
    • 1837, The Western Messenger:
      The imitations of the gobblings and other sounds of wild turkeys, often brought this keen-eyed and ever watchful tenant of the forest within reach of the rifle.
    • 1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 24:
      The farmyard was dark and he tiptoed across it so that the turkeys wouldn't set up their gobbling and flapping.

Verb

gobbling

  1. present participle and gerund of gobble

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