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Pringle should propose to my daughter she would gobble him down. H. James, Jr., Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 344. =Syn. 1. To devour , etc. (see eat ); bolt, gulp. gobble2 (gob'l), v. i.; pret. and pp. gobbled , ppr. gobbling . [Approximately imitative, the form being suggested by gobble1 .] To make the loud noise in the throat peculiar to the turkey-cock.