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Gobbler   /gˈɑbələr/  /gˈɑblər/   Listen
Gobbler

noun
1.
A hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls.
2.
Male turkey.  Synonyms: tom, tom turkey, turkey cock.





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"Gobbler" Quotes from Famous Books



... floppin' and rollin' and sprawlin' and screamin' down to the ground, and then he'd make most as much fuss a-gettin' up into line agin. They are very fond of straight, lines is turkeys. I never see an old gobbler, with his gorget, that I don't think of a kernel of a marchin' regiment, and if you'll listen to him and watch him, he'll strut jist like one, and say, 'halt! dress!' oh, he is a military man is a turkey cock: he wears long ...
— The Attache - or, Sam Slick in England, Complete • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... know how he was going to drive the angry turkey gobbler away from his sister Sue. He did not stop to think of that, but, like the brave little fellow he was, he ran toward Sue, ready to do something. The gobbler was closer to ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm • Laura Lee Hope
... Mrs. Woodruff to Mrs. Irwin, "but I thought it would be better to cook two turkey-hens instead of one great big gobbler with meat as tough as tripe and ...
— The Brown Mouse • Herbert Quick


Words linked to "Gobbler" :   feeder, eater, gobble, Meleagris gallopavo, turkey


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