gurgle
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Back formation from Middle English gurguling (“a rumbling in the belly”). Akin to Middle Dutch gorgelen (“to gurgle”), Middle Low German gorgelen (“to gurgle”), German gurgeln (“to gargle”), and perhaps to Latin gurguliō (“throat”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɜː.ɡl̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɝ.ɡl̩/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡəl
Verb[edit]
gurgle (third-person singular simple present gurgles, present participle gurgling, simple past and past participle gurgled)
- To flow with a bubbling sound.
- The bath water gurgled down the drain.
- 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame
- Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
- To make such a sound.
- The baby gurgled with delight.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to flow with a bubbling sound
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to make such a sound
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Noun[edit]
gurgle (plural gurgles)
- A gurgling sound.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934:
- Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.
Translations[edit]
gurgling sound
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German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Verb[edit]
gurgle
- inflection of gurgeln:
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