這個拼法是2個不同的字· 2 words spelled “gobble”
- 1gobble · eat fast and greedily狼吞虎嚥You can picture a mouth taking one big load of food after another, hardly stopping in between.
- 2
gobble · eat fast and greedily
vYou can picture a mouth taking one big load of food after another, hardly stopping in between. Speed and bulk are in front; chewing has been pushed out of the way.
From the word’s history
Traced to Middle English gobben, to swallow greedily, plus the -le ending that marks something done over and over. The repeated big swallow is exactly the modern picture.
可以追到中古英語的 gobben（大口吞嚥），加上表示「重複做」的 -le。一口接一口地吞，正好就是今天這個字的畫面。再往前的來源，來源本身標為不確定。
Wiktionary, "gobble" (etymology 1)
gobble · turkey's call
v/nHere the word is the noise. You can think of the rolling, bubbling call a turkey throws out across a yard, and the word is simply that sound written down.
From the word’s history
The source says plainly that this gobble imitates the sound of a turkey, so the sound came first and the word was shaped to fit it.
來源直接說這個 gobble 是在模仿火雞的叫聲：先有聲音，字才照著聲音做出來。這也是它跟「狼吞虎嚥」那個 gobble 只是長得像、其實沒關係的原因。
Wiktionary, "gobble" (etymology 2)