Gurgle
['gɜːg(ə)l] or ['ɡɝɡl]
Definition
(noun.) the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck.
(verb.) utter with a gurgling sound; '`Help,' the stabbing victim gurgled'.
(verb.) make sounds similar to gurgling water; 'The baby gurgled with satisfaction when the mother tickled it'.
Checker: Phyllis--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.
(n.) The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles."
Typist: Silvia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Ripple, purl, murmur.
Typed by Darla
Definition
v.i. to flow in an irregular noisy current: to make a bubbling sound.
Typed by Gwendolyn
Examples
- It ended suddenly on its highest note with a choke and a gurgle. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now she laughed--a little choking gurgle of a laugh; but it was enough. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Where only chops, toast, and coffee are to be had for breakfast, chops can be prepared below the coils, the toast above, while the coffee gurgle-gurgles in the percolator. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Some lock below gurgled in _its_ throat immediately afterwards, and then a door crashed. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- My dearest friend is so ill, and wo-o-on't see me, gurgled out Briggs in an agony of renewed grief. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Something gurgled and moaned. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She rocked herself to and fro; caught her throat; and, uttering a gurgling sound, gasped for breath. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Trills of melody were heard behind the scenes, and gurgling from a sweet pasteboard cottage covered with roses and trellis work. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The fire had crumbled down to greyness, and one of the lamps made a gurgling appeal for attention. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Where only chops, toast, and coffee are to be had for breakfast, chops can be prepared below the coils, the toast above, while the coffee gurgle-gurgles in the percolator. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Checker: Nicole