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Definition of Gurgle
1. Noun. The bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck.
2. Verb. Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise. "Babbling brooks"
Generic synonyms: Go, Sound
Derivative terms: Bubble, Bubbler, Ripple
3. Verb. Make sounds similar to gurgling water. "The baby gurgled with satisfaction when the mother tickled it"
4. Verb. Drink from a flask with a gurgling sound.
5. Verb. Utter with a gurgling sound. "`Help,' the stabbing victim gurgled"
Definition of Gurgle
1. 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.
2. n. The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise.
Definition of Gurgle
1. Verb. To flow with a bubbling sound. ¹
2. Verb. To make such a sound. ¹
3. Noun. A gurgling sound. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gurgle
1. to flow unevenly [v -GLED, -GLING, -GLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gurgle
Literary usage of Gurgle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Louder then will be the song : For she will plain, and gurgle, as she goes, ...
Even here would malice leer its last, gurgle its choked remonstrance. ..."
2. The Battle of the Wilderness by Morris Schaff (1910)
"then breaking into a gurgle, — had they known that Ewell was within three miles
of Warren, it would have been, I think, quite another camp-fire, ..."
3. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... ku, to drink water with the gurgle which one makes in one's throat when drinking
... gurgle ..."
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