Talk:gobbler

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gobbler

The second term, which is An electronic kitchen appliance that pulverises food waste that has gone down the sink. --Gobbler 18:01, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I've not heard that in UK, but then the appliance is quite uncommon here, so it's not surprising if it hasn't developed a nickname. We normally call them waste disposal units. --Enginear 19:34, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

The nickname, the definition, and the use of the word "pulverizes" all seem British to me. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this is a nickname for a garbage disposal unit that has developed in Britain. But even so, it needs to be clarified that "gobbler" is not a technical term, also the use of the word "pulverize" seems terribly out of place to me.Randy6767 19:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

If you check out the entry's initial edit, you will see that the sense was added by User:Wonderfool (aka Expurgator), whose entries were frequently rather wonderful flights of fancy, eg WT:-)#rambling and WT:-)#Expanded, although others were "normal". So you are right to guess it was a British entry, but that does not necessarily make it correct. It might be a British nickname, or then again it might not. Certainly, in 30 yrs in the British building industry, I do not recall hearing it, and the top 100 b.g.c. hits for gobbler -turkey didn't have a single hit matching this definition, so it's not common. --Enginear 20:20, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Seems uncitable, therefor delete. Randy6767 20:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Shall I do the honors? --deleted Randy6767 22:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I couldn't find any usage of this word in that sense (save the fifty Wiktionary mirrors). However, the search is complicated by the fact that any search of "gobbler" and "appliance" brings up "energy gobbler." So the word may well exist in that form, but it'll be nigh impossible to find. I've cleared #2. If anyone does find anything, feel free to reinstate it. This probably was one of Wonderfool's more......interesting entries (rambling was hilarious). Atelaes 22:59, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

This sense has already been gone for a while, but I'm officially marking this RFV failed for posterity's sake. :-) —Ruakh_TALK 18:04, 26 May 2007 (UTC)