Definitions for: Gurgle


[n] the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck
[v] drink from a flask with a gurgling sound
[v] make sounds similar to gurgling water; "The baby gurgled with satisfaction when the mother tickled it"
[v] flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise, as of water; "babbling brooks"



Webster (1913) Definition: Gur"gle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gurgled;p. pr. & vb. n.
Gurgling.] [Cf. It. gorgogliare to gargle, bubble up, fr.
L. gurgulio gullet. Cf. Gargle, Gorge.]
To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as
water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or
stones.

Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste
their music on the savage race. --Young.


Gur"gle, n.
The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling
gurgles." --W. Thompson.

Synonyms: guggle

See Also: drink, go, imbibe, sound, sound

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