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Gobble vs Engulf - What's the difference?

gobble | engulf |

As verbs the difference between gobble and engulf

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

As a noun gobble

is the sound of a turkey.

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 .

    engulf

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To overwhelm.
    • Desperation engulfed her after her daughter's death.
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
    • Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.
  • To surround; to cover.
    • Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed earth.