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Consume vs Gobble - What's the difference?

consume | gobble |

As verbs the difference between consume and gobble

is that consume is while gobble is to make the sound of a turkey.

As a noun gobble is

the sound of a turkey.

consume

English

Verb

(consum)
  • To use.
    • The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
  • To eat.
    • Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
  • To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
    • Desire consumed him.
  • To destroy completely.
    • The building was consumed by fire.
  • * Shakespeare
    • If he were putting to my house the brand / That shall consume it.
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 20
    • Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume .
  • (obsolete) To waste away slowly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Therefore, let Benedick, like cover'd fire, / Consume away in sighs.
  • * 1899 , Kate Chopin, The Awakening :
    • He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.

    Synonyms

    * (use) burn (of energy ), use, use up * (eat) devour, eat, swallow * (occupy) occupy, overcome, take over * (destroy) annihilate, destroy, devastate, eliminate, obliterate, raze (of a building ), wipe out

    Derived terms

    * consumer

    Related terms

    * consumption * consumptive

    gobble

    English

    Verb

    (gobbl)
  • To make the sound of a turkey.
  • * Goldsmith
    • He gobbles out a note of self-approbation.
  • To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff. Often used with up
    • He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • supper gobbled up in haste

    Synonyms

    * (eat quickly or greedily) (l), (l), (l)

    Derived terms

    * gobbler * gobble off * gobbly

    See also

    * cluck * gobbledegook

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a turkey.
  • (Scotland, slang, vulgar) fellatio; blowjob
  • * 2009 , Mandasue Heller, The Charmer
    • Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble .