What's the difference between gabbling and gobbling?
Gabbling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gabble
Example Sentences:
(1) Rose woke his wife, Tania, gabbled the story to her – and immediately fell asleep again.
(2) The chancellor gabbled his way through some important changes to benefits in the middle of his speech, presumably hoping to give the overall impression that the package was not as bad as it might have been.
(3) It’s the only place where silence is mandatory and generalised rather than an accidental moment in-between bursts of activity, and it requires great skills of concentration and inner stillness to develop the wherewithal to take your book or your work to a library table and sit down and study without surfing the web, shooting off a text or gabbling about nothing to your friends.
(4) This was the moment in Osborne's otherwise polished peroration when he started to gabble, as the chancellor rushed through a series of technical announcements, the impact of which will be anything but technical.
(5) He was very excited, gabbling, so I said, ‘Should I come round and see you?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.’” But when Connor handed the phone back to the nurse, she said no, Connor didn’t want him to come.
(6) Like a child fulfilling a dare, he gabbled a warning about putting ideas into the blacks' heads, before losing his nerve and leaving.
(7) There was no one else around; no sounds except the wind and waves, and the faint gabble of the birds among the flowers.
(8) Instead, we have Allison Pearson from the Telegraph calling for internment and Katie Hopkins gabbling about a “final solution” to the Muslim problem like a Devon Eva Braun.
(9) I mean gabble, gabble, gabble, gabble … Has she some new stories for you?
(10) At one end of the spectrum was wonderful Jordan, who gave leave of his sanity within the first 10 minutes and spent the rest of the episode vacillating between singing to himself and gabbling about losing his cherries, while Nancy – whose flawless bakes earned her Star Baker – sat primly at the other end, a vision of calm and composure, albeit with a steely glint in her eye.
(11) He emerges into the light only rarely, to gabble strings of statistics like a Treasury answering machine.
Gobbling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gobble
Example Sentences:
(1) There are no frame-gobbling images, no torrents of blood flowing down the streets of suburban Australia.
(2) At a time when British brands such as Weetabix are being gobbled up by Chinese companies, a growing number of UK businesses hope to grab their own slice of the booming Chinese grocery market.
(3) Rafa holds too after his opponent plops a forehand short and Nadal gobbles the chance.
(4) Asylum seekers are widely perceived to be a large group of undeserving people who scrounge benefits and gobble up social housing and jobs that should be reserved for British citizens.
(5) Many landowners have been in financial limbo for years as the authority weighs different paths, leaving farmers wary of planting crops or buying new equipment in case their land gets gobbled up.
(6) Deep thought That sense of responsibility was put on show earlier this year when Cadbury turned Dairy Milk into a Fairtrade product and so transforming gobbling down a big bar of the purple stuff into snacking with a social conscience.
(7) The competition regulator is examining whether gobbling up one of Poundland’s few single-price rivals will give the retailer more freedom to reduce the offers shoppers get for their £1 – like those two-for-a-pound Aloe Vera drinks.
(8) Arsenal came to resemble the chicken feed from the lower reaches of the Bundesliga that Bayern routinely gobble up, although there is no shame in being beaten by them – and badly at that.
(9) But the new research does suggest that the reasons for long-term endemic joblessness are much more complicated than the story crafted by government and eagerly gobbled up by irresponsible programme makers and scrounger-seeking tabloids.
(10) Big two-litre engine, short slope, oh dear: it took an enormous high-revving, fuel-gobbling wheelspin to heave the S-Max up the hill.
(11) Saints 0-3 Seahawks, 10:19, 1st quarter Still a strong defensive stand for the Saints, who gobble up a pair of Lynch runs before dragging down receiver Doug Baldwin after a short gain on third-and-nine.
(12) 9.28pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 1st Yadier Molina hits a ball that seems likely to sneak into the outfield but Nick Punto, in the game only because Hanley Ramirez is hurt, gobbles it up to make the third out of the inning and keep the Cardinals off the board.
(13) The man is a picture of confidence, gobbling up Pedroia's roller to shortstop.
(14) Instead of savouring, we gobble – not just words, but everything.
(15) One has to admire Hilary's ferocity, much like Muldoon in Jurassic Park really has to admire the escaped raptor's speed before it gobbles him as a pre-lunch amuse-bouche.
(16) Jones, who admitted to eating Weetabix for breakfast every other day – alternating with porridge – said he had "no problem" with China gobbling up great British brands, but just wished that they would be "similarly open to British investment in China".
(17) By the end of this process, Americans had gobbled up more than 85 per cent of Chile's hard-currency earning industries.
(18) Fledgling publicist Max persuaded Kelvin MacKenzie, the then Sun editor, to run a story about how Starr put his friend Lea La Salle's hamster, Supersonic, between two pieces of bread and gobbled it up.
(19) Snake, obviously Sure, now the greatest Electronic Arts and Rockstar games are available at the tap of an app, gobbling up phone space and hours of time.
(20) B efore I met her I’d never really had a salad,” Callum Wilson says, thinking back to the moment that accelerated his development from a promising but fragile youngster into the lean and muscular striker who is gobbling up chances for Bournemouth in the same way he once devoured fast food.