GOBBLING Synonyms

• (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous

• eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)

• a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing

• the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly

• serve oneself to, or consume regularly

• take up mentally

• a large bite

• Norwegian painter (1863-1944)

• crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound

• To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.

• To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.

• To shape by grinding.

• To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.

• To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.

• To eat very quickly.

• any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

• Austrian composer (1860-1903)

• a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

• German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

• a cruelly rapacious person

• eat hastily

• a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder

• a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech

• the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key

• the act of moving with great haste

• a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length

• a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener

• a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)

• in a rigid manner

• directly

• move or jump suddenly

• secure or lock with a bolt

• swallow hastily

• run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

• leave suddenly and as if in a hurry

• eat hastily without proper chewing

• make or roll into bolts

• a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration

• a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end

• masturbate while strangling oneself

• unite by a scarf joint

• wrap in or adorn with a scarf

• showing your contempt by derision

• laugh at with contempt and derision

• treat with contemptuous disregard