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Quotation dates: 1835-1841
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†GORBLE, v.2, n.
I. v. To make a noise in the throat like a turkey-cock.Slk. 1835 Hogg in Fraser's Mag. XI. 357:
The carl he gorbled a gruesome laugh.
II. n. A noise of this kind.Sc. 1841 Scots Mag. (April) 55:
He is the possessor of an affliction which he diagnoses as "a nesty gorble in the throat," brought on, he says with resigned martyrdom, by unremitting toil in a stooped posture.
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