Crowing vs Gobbling - What's the difference?
crowing | gobbling |
A cry of joy or pleasure.
* 1865 , Methodist Episcopal Church, Ladies' Repository
The act of eating greedily and noisily.
* 1994 , Gail Turley Houston, Consuming Fictions
The sound of a turkey.
* 1837 , The Western Messenger
As verbs the difference between crowing and gobbling
is that crowing is while gobbling is .As nouns the difference between crowing and gobbling
is that crowing is a cry of joy or pleasure while gobbling is the act of eating greedily and noisily.crowing
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The tiny mouth is uttering the most satisfied of crowings , and her eyes have that pure, soft expression never seen except in baby eyes.
gobbling
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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
- 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.
