Definition of Gobbled

1. Verb. (past of gobble) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gobbled

1. gobble [v] - See also: gobble

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gobbled

gobar
gobbed
gobbet
gobbets
gobbety
gobbi
gobbier
gobbies
gobbiest
gobbing
gobbings
gobbinsite
gobble hole
gobble up
gobbled (current term)
gobbledegoo
gobbledegook
gobbledegooks
gobbledygook
gobbledygooks
gobbler
gobblers
gobbles
gobbling
gobbo
gobemouche
gobemouches
gobernadora

Literary usage of Gobbled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"I never gobbled one poor flat, To cheer me with his soft dark eye, &c. Yale Tomahawk, Nov. 1849. I went and performed, and got through the burning, ..."

2. Letters of Celia Thaxter by Celia Thaxter (1895)
"I have planted pints of seeds, and not an aster of the hundreds of fine plants I have set out from boxes but the slugs have gobbled. ..."

3. Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's by Charles Wright Wills (1906)
"Don't be much surprised if you hear of us being gobbled up by the guerrillas, for these railroad guards are only baits for them ; nothing more. ..."

4. Christopher in His Sporting Jacket by John Wilson (1901)
"... have time to look in one another's splashed faces, he is torn into a thousand pieces, gobbled up in the general growl; and smug, and smooth, and dry, ..."

5. A Romance in Smoke by Daniel C. Reynolds, Walter Francis Brown (1876)
"Poor father, his black glossy hair had turned white, He was only a wreck and a pitiful" sight ; The sheriff had gobbled our family estate, ..."

6. The Truth about Mexico: Being a Bird's Eye View of Political, Social, and by David Lawrence (1917)
"... itself that the immense resources of the country are not to be gobbled up through false titles and special privileges, the foreigner will be welcomed. ..."

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