英语词汇the gobble的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

the gobble. Edna Ferber explained this in Cimarron (1930): “[Yancy] opened his mouth and there issued from it a sound so dreadful, so unearthly as to freeze the blood . . . It was a sound between the gobble of an angry turkey cock and the howl of a coyote. Throughout the Southwest it was known that this terri- ble sound, famed as the gobble, was Cherokee in origin and a death cry among the Territory Indians. It was known, too, that when an Indian gobbled it meant sudden destruction to any or all in his path.”

词汇	the gobble
词源	the gobble. Edna Ferber explained this in Cimarron (1930): “[Yancy] opened his mouth and there issued from it a sound so dreadful, so unearthly as to freeze the blood . . . It was a sound between the gobble of an angry turkey cock and the howl of a coyote. Throughout the Southwest it was known that this terri- ble sound, famed as the gobble, was Cherokee in origin and a death cry among the Territory Indians. It was known, too, that when an Indian gobbled it meant sudden destruction to any or all in his path.”
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