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Webster 1913 Edition
Gurgle
Gur′gle
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gurgled
;p. pr. & vb. n.
Gurgling
.] 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.
And waste their music on the savage race.
Young.
Gur′gle
,Noun.
The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise.
“Tinkling gurgles.” W. Thompson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gurgle
GUR'GLE
,Verb.
I.
To run as liquor with a purling noise; to run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream on a stony bottom.
Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace.
Definition 2024
gurgle
gurgle
English
Verb
gurgle (third-person singular simple present gurgles, present participle gurgling, simple past and past participle gurgled)
- To flow with a bubbling sound.
- The bath water gurgled down the drain.
- Young
- Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
- To make such a sound.
- The baby gurgled with delight.
Translations
to flow with a bubbling sound
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to make such a sound
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Noun
gurgle (plural gurgles)
- 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.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
Translations
gurgling sound