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Gorged vs Gobbled - What's the difference?

gorged | gobbled |

As verbs the difference between gorged and gobbled

is that gorged is past tense of gorge while gobbled is past tense of gobble.

As an adjective gorged

is with a stomach stuffed full of food.

gorged

English

Adjective

(-)
  • With a stomach stuffed full of food.
  • *(rfdate) ,
  • *:Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight.
  • *
  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
  • (lb) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (gorge)

    • Related terms

    * engorged * gorge

    Anagrams

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    gobbled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gobble)

    • Anagrams

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    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 .