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.
Wiktionary
n. A gurgling sound. vb. (present participle of gurgle English)
Usage examples of "gurgling".
Kerrie set three mugs on a tray beside the gurgling coffeemaker, then grabbed the creamer and sugar bowl and started toward him.
Behind came the ponderous Juggers, grunting, gurgling, teeth clashing together with the vibration of their steps.
Flynn and Kenner hesitated, then came a gurgling, strangled scream that died suddenly.
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.
A furious clanging of bells broke out of the empty house, followed by muffed gurglings and trumpetings.
The Charger holding him let go, and Nace hovered in shock for a moment before falling in a gurgling pile to his knees.
Conan tore his sword free as the victim sagged to the floor, gasping and gurgling.
A succession of loud, blowing noises full of gurgling came out the tracheostomy site as secretions from her lung pooled in her airway.
The creature noticed the humans for the first time, gurgling, opening its warning ruff at them wide, snout antennules waving for their scent.
Even then, his sleep had been restless, part of his mind infernally aware of where he lay: the bedog strange and not quite attuned to his needs, the odd noises beyond the walls -- water gurgling somewhere, always water.
Immediately the merrow let out a gurgling yelp and dropped its hold on Liriel.
At that crucial instant the coffee percolator made a truly obscene gurgling sound.
He had pink fuzz on his head that made him look like a beguiling putto and newborn blue eyes already touched with green and a gurgling coo that instantly charmed.
Teeth crunched, blood gushed from flattened lips, and the fool tottered rearward and fell, whining and gurgling.
They seemed to be standing on the edge of the world with the wind beating and moaning through the stones and the waters spilling over rocks far below, gurgling and whispering.