A male turkey, or a person who eats or talks greedily or quickly.
From Middle English and Old English, derived from the verb 'gobble,' which imitates the sound a turkey makes. The term has been used since the 1600s specifically for male turkeys.
The word comes directly from mimicking what turkeys sound like—their distinctive gobbling call! So the bird literally named itself through the sounds it makes, which is why the term has stuck for over 400 years.
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