gurgle
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈɡəː.ɡəl/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈɡɝ.ɡəl/
Verb

gurgle (gurgles, present participle gurgling; past and past participle gurgled)

  1. To flow with a bubbling sound.
    The bath water gurgled down the drain.
    • Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
  2. To make such a sound.
    The baby gurgled with delight.
Translations
  • German: gurgeln
  • Italian: gorgogliare, fiottare, croccolare, bruire
  • Portuguese: gorgolejar
  • Russian: бу́лькать
Translations Noun

gurgle (plural gurgles)

  1. A gurgling sound.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
      Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.
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