Gobble vs Feed - What's the difference?
gobble | feed |
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
(lb) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
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*Bible, (w) xii.20:
*:If thine enemy hunger, feed him.
(lb) To eat (usually of animals).
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ΒΆ.
(lb) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
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*2012 December 25 (airdate), (Steven Moffat), The Snowmen'' (''Doctor Who )
*:DR SIMEON: I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to.
(lb) To give to a machine to be processed.
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(lb) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
*(Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
*:feeding him with the hope of liberty
To supply with something.
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To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
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*Mortimer
*:Once in three years feed your mowing lands.
To pass to.
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(uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
Something supplied continuously.
The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
(countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
(Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
As verbs the difference between gobble and feed
is that gobble is to make the sound of a turkey while feed is (lb) to give (someone or something) food to eat or feed can be (fee).As nouns the difference between gobble and feed
is that gobble is the sound of a turkey while feed is (uncountable) food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.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 .
feed
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) feden, from (etyl) through Indo-European. More at (l), (l).Verb
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Noun
- They sell feed , riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
- a satellite feed
- the paper feed of a printer
- They held a crab feed on the beach.
- I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.