gurglesome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From gurgle +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

gurglesome (comparative more gurglesome, superlative most gurglesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by gurgling
    • 1891, Epoch, volume 9, page 90:
      Miss Georgia Cayvan was far less gurglesome than usual, and her work as Louis: was artistic throughout.
    • 2000, Rebecca West, Bonnie Kime Scott, Selected Letters of Rebecca West:
      She was in one of her naughty, gurglesome moods, and bounced on her chair and waved her hands about in her funniest way.
    • 2009, Mark Radcliffe, Thank You for the Days:
      As I lay in my single bed that night, unable to sleep as the feast and my intestines fought a particularly gurglesome war, the end of the journey seemed a long, long way away.