Crossword clues for gurgle
gurgle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gurgle \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.
Gurgle \Gur"gle\, n.
The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. ``Tinkling
gurgles.''
--W. Thompson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., medical term for "gurgling heard in the abdomen," a native, echoic formation, or ultimately from Latin gurguliare, perhaps via Dutch, German gurgeln. Extended (non-anatomical) use, in reference to water over stones, etc., is first recorded 1713. "This phenomenon of long specialized use before becoming a part of the general vocabulary is often found in English" [Barnhart]. Related: Gurgled; gurgling. As a noun from early 15c.
Wiktionary
n. A gurgling sound. vb. 1 To flow with a bubble sound. 2 To make such a sound.
WordNet
n. the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck
v. flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble]
make sounds similar to gurgling water; "The baby gurgled with satisfaction when the mother tickled it"
drink from a flask with a gurgling sound [syn: guggle]
utter with a gurgling sound; "'Help,' the stabbing victim gurgeld"
Wikipedia
For alternative use, see Somerset Gurgle.
Gurgle.com is a British pregnancy and parenting website owned by high-street parenting store Mothercare. Founded by Tom Wright, Gurgle launched as a joint venture between Mothercare and Fleming Media, a family backed investment company, in October 2007. Mothercare bought Fleming Media out to become outright owner of Gurgle in September 2009. Since 2008 the site has been run by Pettrina Keogh, who joined the company from Telegraph Media Group.
Usage examples of "gurgle".
He remembered teaching the boy the difference between the calls of the two birds, showing him how, hidden in the reeds, the coucal arched its neck to gurgle out its last rising note.
Kerrie set three mugs on a tray beside the gurgling coffeemaker, then grabbed the creamer and sugar bowl and started toward him.
The beer gurgled creamily out of the bottle and foamed up in the glass.
In the sudden quiet that followed she heard a gurgle like a straw in the bottom of a soda glass and Dubby folded into himself like an empty laundry bag.
The flute began to gurgle anew, like a drinking spout in spring-time, and away we went, faster and faster each minute, the boys and girls swinging themselves in time to the tune, and capering presently till their tender feet were twinkling over the ground in gay confusion.
Beyond Jack, from the couch, Fowles made a sound like a wet gurgle, then rolled off the couch onto the floor.
Tiberias sank to the earth, still laughing ghastlily through a gurgle of gushing blood.
Behind came the ponderous Juggers, grunting, gurgling, teeth clashing together with the vibration of their steps.
The only answers that The Shadow heard were the gurgles that came when Jute took another swallow of his drink.
Flynn and Kenner hesitated, then came a gurgling, strangled scream that died suddenly.
There was this liquidy gurgle and Jeremy actually screamed, this long desperate scream from the bottom of his lungs.
They were both lounging on the bank above the little stream that gurgled its way along the clearing.
Belle leapt clear and tracked-on spitting, reflexively sending her first greeting smashing into the gunhand of the opponent and splattering it, then climbing for the heart and the head--and the Mafioso went down gurgling with three Parabellum hi-shock expanders displacing several cubic inches of vital matter.
The Charger holding him let go, and Nace hovered in shock for a moment before falling in a gurgling pile to his knees.
The sharp edge of the underneath part of the bed was pitched at exactly the right elevation to permit the pigling to scrape himself ecstatically backwards and forwards, with an artistic humping of the back at the crucial moment and an accompanying gurgle of long-drawn delight.