這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字,意思沒有關係, 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 狼吞虎嚥 · (火雞)咯咯叫
gobble
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), supplied in this evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:800249808)
A second word, same spelling
gobble
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), supplied in this evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:800268505)