glug

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  1. A clod. Place of safyr is stones, and the gluggis [L. glebæ] of hym gold. Wyclif, Job xxviii. 6 (Oxf.).

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  • He had a long contemplative glug, then shuddered violently. —  F ;SF - vol 090 issue 03 - March 1996
  • Seconds later they broke the surface and the bronze man released his hold on his aide's mouth and nose The sound Renny made sucking in good air was like a foghorn warning of hidden reefs Shortly he spluttered, "Glu--glug--holy cow Doc advised, "Lie on your back. —  081 - Hex
  • Sorbo drained the Rodney flask with a roustabout's glug, then withdrew a new bottle of Graham's vintage port from a cupboard, decanted it carefully into the fake flask. —  dummy 3
  • The dinghy was hidden by posts but he could hear the glug-glug of its movement and the hollow thud it made when it knocked against the post to which it was made fast. —  Death At The Bar - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 09: 1940
  • JULIE: The Man with the Iron Mask and the fella who says “ug uh-glug uh-glug uh-glug” when the line is busy. —  Tales of the Jazz Age
 

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  1. Middle English, a variant of clog.
 

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