Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
Not before this performance is over does he [a male capercaillie] settle down to play, and commence gobbling and snapping his beak.
Fellatio; a blowjob.
Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble.
An act of eating hastily or greedily.
[…] wrinkling his forehead and moving his jaws and throat violently, as if he expected to choke with each gobble.
A surname.
From Middle English gobben (“to drink or swallow greedily”), of uncertain origin + -le (frequentative suffix). Middle English gobben is perhaps an alteration of Middle English globben (“to gulp down”)...
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The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.
But while the hen continued her cackle he finished his first play, and had commenced the gobble of his second, when a twig cracked beneath my feet.