gurgle

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  1. intransitive verb To flow in a broken irregular current with a bubbling sound: water gurgling from a bottle.
  2. intransitive verb To make a sound similar to this: The baby gurgled with pleasure.
  3. transitive verb To express or pronounce with a broken, irregular, bubbling sound.

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  • With a choking gurgle, the guard staggered to his feet. —  Conan Of The Isles
  • With a gurgle, the creature suddenly convulsed in his arms and went limp. —  Kaz the Minotaur
  • I converted my gurgle -- successfully, I hope -- into a cough, and Tina grasped my arm, smothering a similar convulsion. —  Working Murder
  • The townie winked at her, didn't bother to introduce himself, and then told her this joke he had heard last night about this elephant who was wandering through the jungle and who stepped on a thorn and it hurt a lot and the elephant was having trouble pulling it out so the elephant asked a rat who was passing by to 'Please pull the thorn out from my foot' and the rat made a request: 'Only if you let me fuck you.' —  The Rules of Attraction
  • "Gestalt schmagalt, " growled Dr. Robbins. —  Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
 

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rumble ·  thud ·  groan ·  plash ·  chuckle ·  trickle ·  patter ·  whimper ·  splash ·  growl ·  squeal ·  croak
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. From Middle English gurguling, a gurgling sound in the abdomen, from Medieval Latin *gurgulāre, to gurgle, from Latin gurguliō, gullet.

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  1. Cf. Portuguese gurgulhar, gush out, boil fast, bubble, = Italian gorgogliare, gargle, bubble up, gurgle (gorgoglio, a gargling, gurgling, purling); cf. also Dutch gorgelen = Middle Low German gorgelen, gargle, = German gurgeln, reflexive gargle, intransitive rattle in the throat; Swedish gurgla = Danish gurgle, gargle: verbs associated with the noun, Dutch gorgel = Old High German gurgula, Middle High German G. gurgel, throat, gargle, from Latin gurgulio, the throat (see gargle, gargoyle), but in part regarded, like the dial. variant guggle and gargle, as imitative of the sound of water in a broken, irregular flow.
  2. from gurgle, v.
 

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