Gobbles vs Gabbles - What's the difference?
gobbles | gabbles |
(gobble)
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
(gabble)
To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
* 1611 , William Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, scene II :
* 1900 , , The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg , ch. 4:
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 16. p. 144.
To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
As verbs the difference between gobbles and gabbles
is that gobbles is third-person singular of gobble while gabbles is third-person singular of gabble.gobbles
English
Verb
(head)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 .
gabbles
English
Verb
(head)gabble
English
Verb
(en-verb)- I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour one thing or other; when thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish
- Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable.
- Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?
- gabbling fowls
- (Dryden)