gurgle
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of gurgle
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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To flow with a bubbling sound.
“The bath water gurgled down the drain.”
“Pure gurgling rills the lonely deſart trace, / And vvaſte their muſick on the ſavage race.”
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verb
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To flow with a bubbling sound.
“The bath water gurgled down the drain.”
“Pure gurgling rills the lonely deſart trace, / And vvaſte their muſick on the ſavage race.”
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To make such a sound.
“The baby gurgled with delight.”
noun
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A gurgling sound.
“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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Etymology
Back formation from Middle English gurguling (“a rumbling in the belly”). Akin to Middle Dutch gorgelen (“to gurgle”), Middle Low German gorgelen (“to gurgle”), German gurgeln (“to gargle”), and perhaps to Latin gurguliō (“throat”).
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