Gobbling vs Gobbing - What's the difference?
gobbling | gobbing |
The act of eating greedily and noisily.
* 1994 , Gail Turley Houston, Consuming Fictions
The sound of a turkey.
* 1837 , The Western Messenger
(mining) The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal; gob stuff.
The process of packing with waste rock; stowing.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between gobbling and gobbing
is that gobbling is while gobbing is .As nouns the difference between gobbling and gobbing
is that gobbling is the act of eating greedily and noisily while gobbing is (mining) the refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal; gob stuff.gobbling
English
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(en noun)- Likewise, when Nell's grandfather badgers Nell to say publicly that she knows he loves her, Kit grotesquely announces his affirmation of their filial bond of affection in between gluttonous gobblings
- The imitations of the gobblings and other sounds of wild turkeys, often brought this keen-eyed and ever watchful tenant of the forest within reach of the rifle.
