gobbleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 gobben (“to drink or swallow greedily”), of uncertain origin +‎ -le (frequentative suffix). 中期英語 gobben is perhaps an alteration of 中期英語 globben (“to gulp down”), related to English gulpen (“to gulp”). However, compare also French gober.

動詞

gobble (third-person singular simple present gobbles, present participle gobbling, simple past and past participle gobbled)

1. To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)

   He gobbled four hot dogs in three minutes.

同意語

• (eat quickly or greedily): hork, scarf, scoff

派生語

名詞

gobble (plural gobbles)

1. (Scotland, slang, vulgar) Fellatio; a blowjob.
   • 2009, Mandasue Heller, The Charmer:

     Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble.

2. (rare) An act of eating hastily or greedily.
   • 1983, Liam O'Flaherty, The Assassin, page 53:

     […] wrinkling his forehead and moving his jaws and throat violently, as if he expected to choke with each gobble.

3. (golf) A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.

派生語

語源 2

Onomatopoetic of the sound of a turkey.

動詞

gobble (third-person singular simple present gobbles, present participle gobbling, simple past and past participle gobbled)

1. (ambitransitive) Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 72:

     Not before this performance is over does he [a male capercaillie] settle down to play, and commence gobbling and snapping his beak.

2. (ambitransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.
   • 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature:

     He […] gobbles out a note of self-approbation.

名詞

gobble (plural gobbles)

1. The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 86:

     But while the hen continued her cackle he finished his first play, and had commenced the gobble of his second, when a twig cracked beneath my feet.

参考

• cluck
• gobbledegook