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词汇 gobble
释义 gobble
verb
uk /ˈɡɒb.əl/ us /ˈɡɑː.bəl/

gobbleverb (EAT)


[ I or T ]informal
to eat food too fast: 狼吞虎咽,大口大口地吃
She gobbled her dinner (down/up).她狼吞虎咽地吃完了晚饭。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to eat food
eatWhat do you want to eat for lunch?
haveI'll just have one more piece of chocolate cake.
consumeHe consumes vast quantities of bread with every meal.
devourThe children devoured a whole packet of biscuits.
bolt (down)Don't bolt down your food - you'll make yourself ill!
gobble (up/down)The children gobbled their sweets.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Eating
al desko
binge
binge eating
bite
break breadidiom
cram
devour
fall on/upon someone
feast
feast on something
feeder
feeding
inhale
mainline
pick at something
picnic
pig
pig out
postprandial
shovel

gobbleverb (MAKE NOISE)


[ I ]
to make the sound of a male turkey(雄火鸡)咯咯叫
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal (non-human) sounds
baa
barky
bleat
buzzy
caterwauling
chatter
cockcrow
coo
honk
miaow
moo
peep
purr
quack
squeak
trill
trumpet
tu-whit tu-whoo
warble
whinny

Phrasal verb


gobble something up

gobble | American Dictionary


gobble
verb
us/ˈɡɑb·əl/

gobbleverb (EAT)


[ T ]
to eat quickly and sometimes with a lot of noise:
[ M ]She gobbled up/down her lunch and hurried back.

gobbleverb (MAKE NOISE)


[ I ]
to make the sound of a male turkey (= a large bird)

Examples of gobble


gobble
There is also another technology —reed beds—which can "gobble up" pollution in a way that is most effective.
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The "ostmark" cannot compete with the deutschmark—the deutschmark would gobble it up.
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He will just have to gobble me up now.
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They are now being made unemployed, and have the galling experience of seeing the coal miners gobble up extra redundancy payments as well.
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People will not be able to gobble up smaller producers just like that.
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When the fan breaks down, or if it does not work properly, the miners gobble dust into their insides.
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I admit that when living in the country one sometimes feels that the carnivorous instincts of these big conurbations may tempt them to gobble us up.
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I do not want these smaller, moderately-sized companies and firms just to sit on their haunches and wait for some big whale to come along and gobble them up.
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There is a feeling afoot that perhaps the food standards agency will gradually gobble up all the local authority enforcement powers in order to amass more power to itself.
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In early spring, male turkeys, also called gobblers or toms, gobble to announce their presence to females and competing males.
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The both gobble down the popcorn until there are only a few pieces left.
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The simulations gobble up breaking news, census data, economic indicators, and climactic events in the real world, along with proprietary information such as military intelligence....
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The player must then either gobble all remaining dots or be caught by a ghost in order to reopen the chutes.
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The gobble can carry for up to a mile.
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Gobblers often yelp in the manner of females, and hens can gobble, though they rarely do so.
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