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Leticia Pröllochs
Hello! What’s the difference between to devour, to wolf down and to gobble?
7 oct. 2023 16:34
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7 octobre 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.
7 octobre 2023
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Leticia Pröllochs
Compétences linguistiques
Anglais, Français, Espagnol
Langue étudiée
Espagnol
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