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Definition of "gobbled" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of gobble. (verb)

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Use "gobbled" in a sentence
  • "Then Sir Buzz cooked the girdle-cakes, and the soldier's son ate three of them and a handful of sweets; but the one-span mannikin gobbled up all the rest, saying at each mouthful, 'You men have such terrible appetites – such terrible appetites!'"
  • "With the chocolate coins gobbled up, it was time for some dinner."
  • ""Not before you've had some breakfast," said her father, and so she hurriedly ate -- it might be said "gobbled," if it were not so unladylike -- the breakfast that Mrs. Jenkins placed before her."