Adjacent Words

Gurgle definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GUR'GLE, v.i. [L. gurges. See Gargle, which seems to be of the same family, or the same word differently applied.]
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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck v
1: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle]
2: make sounds similar to gurgling water; "The baby gurgled with satisfaction when the mother tickled it"
3: drink from a flask with a gurgling sound [syn: guggle, gurgle]
4: utter with a gurgling sound; "`Help,' the stabbing victim gurgled"

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb (gurgled; gurgling) Etymology: probably imitative Date: 1596 1. to flow in a broken irregular current <the brook gurgling over the rocks> 2. to make a sound like that of a gurgling liquid <the baby gurgling in his crib> • gurgle noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 intr. make a bubbling sound as of water from a bottle. 2 tr. utter with such a sound. --n. a gurgling sound. Derivatives: gurgler n. Etymology: imit., or f. Du. gorgelen, G gurgeln, or med.L gurgulare f. L gurgulio gullet

Webster's 1913 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gurgle Gur"gle, n. The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles." --W. Thompson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(gurgles, gurgling, gurgled) 1. If water is gurgling, it is making the sound that it makes when it flows quickly and unevenly through a narrow space. ...a narrow stone-edged channel along which water gurgles unseen. VERB: V adv/prep • Gurgle is also a noun. We could hear the swish and gurgle of water against the hull. N-COUNT 2. If someone, especially a baby, is gurgling, they are making a sound in their throat similar to the gurgling of water. Henry gurgles happily in his baby chair. VERB: V • Gurgle is also a noun. There was a gurgle of laughter on the other end of the line. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Ripple, purl, murmur.

Moby Thesaurus

babble, babbling, blubber, boil, boil over, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, bubbling, burble, burbling, condense, distill, dribble, drip, dripple, drop, effervesce, ferment, filter, fizz, fizzle, guggle, gurgling, hiss, lap, leach, lixiviate, murmur, murmuring, percolate, plash, plashing, plop, purl, ripple, seep, seethe, simmer, slosh, sparkle, splash, splashing, spurtle, swash, sweat, swish, trickle, trill, wash, weep, work