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Gluttony vs Gobble - What's the difference?

gluttony | gobble |

As nouns the difference between gluttony and gobble

is that gluttony is the vice of eating to excess while gobble is the sound of a turkey.

As a verb gobble is

to make the sound of a turkey.

gluttony

English

Noun

(-)
  • The vice of eating to excess.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.

    Related terms

    * glut * glutton * gluttonous * gluttonry

    See also

    * alimentiveness

    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 .