Leticia Pröllochs
Hello! What’s the difference between to devour, to wolf down and to gobble?
Oct 7, 2023 4:34 PM
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October 7, 2023
Nothing really, they all express voraciously eating something. The latter two phrases are more illustrative and imply an animalistic, unmannered way of eating. 'Devour' is a neutral, standard type of word to mean eating fast, without enjoying the food, etc. 'To wolf down' is an illustrative, simile-type idiomatic phrase. To invoke eating animalistically like a wolf. 'To gobble' is probably like an onomatopoeia mimicking the gobbling sounds of an animal when it's eating very quickly.
October 7, 2023
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