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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  • The yacht carved through the water with a quiet gurgle, and the winch clicked quietly as the skipper tightened the jib. —  EQMM,November2007
  • The vamp dropped to his knees and gave a choked gurgle, and his heart literally leapt out of his chest. —  Chance, Karen - Touch the Dark
  • There was a gurgle, as of old pipes being tried The creature on the slab turned its blind gaze back to the ceiling. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
  • It caught the White Brethren guard on my left in the throat and he fell backward with scarcely a gurgle, his hand leaving my arm. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • Will they denounce the cultural repression and hatred of America or will they gurgle, a la —  American Thinker
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rumble ·  thud ·  groan ·  plash ·  chuckle ·  trickle ·  patter ·  whimper ·  splash ·  growl ·  squeal ·  croak

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gurgle:   gurgling
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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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