Gobble vs Engorge - What's the difference?
gobble | engorge |
To make the sound of a turkey.
* Goldsmith
To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff. Often used with up
* Jonathan Swift
The sound of a turkey.
(Scotland, slang, vulgar) fellatio; blowjob
* 2009 , Mandasue Heller, The Charmer
To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
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, chapter=2 To feed ravenously.
(pathology) To fill excessively with a body liquid, especially blood.
As verbs the difference between gobble and engorge
is that gobble is to make the sound of a turkey while engorge is .As a noun gobble
is the sound of a turkey.gobble
English
Verb
(gobbl)- He gobbles out a note of self-approbation.
- He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.
- supper gobbled up in haste
Synonyms
* (eat quickly or greedily) (l), (l), (l)Derived terms
* gobbler * gobble off * gobblySee also
* cluck * gobbledegookNoun
(en noun)- Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble .
engorge
English
Verb
citation, passage=One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.}}