gobbler

the word 'gobbler' is a transparent english formation, built upon the verb 'gobble'. the verb 'gobble' itself is an onomatopoeic creation from the late 16th century, mimicking the guttural sound made by a turkey. by adding the agentive suffix '-er', common in germanic languages for denoting one who performs an action, the noun 'gobbler' was formed. it first logically applied to the male turkey, the source of the sound, and later extended metaphorically to describe a person who consumes food with a similar rapid, noisy gusto, completing a journey from imitative sound to literal animal reference and finally to figurative human behavior.

Structure: gobbl (to eat quickly) + er (agent suffix) gobbl (from the english verb 'gobble', of onomatopoeic origin, imitative of the sound of a turkey or of greedy eating) + er (agent noun suffix, from old english '-ere', of germanic origin, indicating a person or thing that performs an action).