Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To flow in a broken irregular current with a bubbling sound.
- intransitive verb To make a sound similar to this.
- intransitive verb To express or pronounce with a broken, irregular, bubbling sound.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream on a stony bottom; flow with a purling sound.
- To make a sound like that of gurgling liquid.
- To utter or produce with a gurgling sound.
- noun A gurgling gush or flow of liquid; the sound made by a liquid flowing from the narrow mouth of a vessel, or through any narrow opening; a purling sound, as of a small stream flowing over a stony bottom; or the sound made when air is forced through a liquid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise.
- intransitive verb To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
flow with abubbling sound . - verb To make such a sound.
- noun A gurgling
sound .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb drink from a flask with a gurgling sound
- verb make sounds similar to gurgling water
- verb flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- verb utter with a gurgling sound
- noun the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Something akin to a gurgle was the only sound he had power to make as she seemed to float in front of him and her fingers wrapped around the base of his shaft.
Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011
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Something akin to a gurgle was the only sound he had power to make as she seemed to float in front of him and her fingers wrapped around the base of his shaft.
Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011
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I have been a Cincinnati Reds fan since conception, and even the promise of complete baseball sanctity through the purging of "cheaters" wouldn't make me want to see Barry Larkin or Ken Griffey, Jr. 's name gurgle up from the depths of an anonymous survey. or part-time in my home.
unknown title 2009
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It was the voice of a man, big, hearty, with that thick, throaty gurgle which is so suggestive of London that one is certain to find a tweed suit and riding-breeches associated with it.
Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West Hamlin Garland 1900
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I had that all too familiar "gurgle" sensation in my lower stomach/intestinal area.
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I heard the hiss of steam and the chink of china as she made her morning tea, the gurgle of the steam radiators as she switched the heating on.
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There was no gurgle of bathwater running upstairs.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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I could hear the gurgle and hiss as gases escaped the bloating bodies.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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It's whipgloss, ladies: the grasses steep-edged in the storm, dense with hornets trying to trick their way under the roots while the stains keep creeping out of my fist, moistening the knee of my pants, your pants, our pants leaving us stranded like creatures that gurgle under the waste as the mud hardens.
Gloss Cooper Renner 2011
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Light pains in my chest, the indeterminable gurgle in my stomach, a swaying before my eyes.
Books in 2009, #5 pabba 2009
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