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Moralize vs Gobble - What's the difference?

moralize | gobble |

As verbs the difference between moralize and gobble

is that moralize is to apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from while gobble is to make the sound of a turkey.

As a noun gobble is

the sound of a turkey.

moralize

English

Verb

  • To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.
  • * L'Estrange
    • This fable is moralized in a common proverb.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Did he not moralize this spectacle?
  • To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to.
  • * Wordsworth
    • While chastening thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed / By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road.
  • To render moral; to correct the morals of.
  • * D. Ramsay
    • It had a large share in moralizing the poor white people of the country.
  • To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • Good and bad stars moralize not our actions.
  • To make moral reflections; to regard acts and events as involving a moral.

    • 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 .