Gurgle

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈɡəː.É¡É™l/
• US IPA: /ˈɡɝ.É¡É™l/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)É¡É™l

Origin

Back formation from Middle English gurguling "a rumbling in the belly". Akin to Middle Dutch and Middle Low German gorgelen "to gurgle", German gurgeln "to gargle", and perhaps to Latin gurgulio "throat"

Full definition of gurgle

Verb

1. To flow with a bubbling sound.The bath water gurgled down the drain.
• YoungPure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace,
  And waste their music on the savage race.
2. To make such a sound.The baby gurgled with delight.

Noun

1. A gurgling sound.
• 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4Then 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.

Anagrams

• glurge
• lugger