Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gurgling sound.
- To make a gurgling sound; gurgle.
- To gargle, as the throat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb See
gurgle .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make a
sound as of liquid being poured from a small-necked container - verb of a liquid To pour from a container and make this sound
- noun Such a sound
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a sound like a liquid that is being poured from a bottle
- verb drink from a flask with a gurgling sound
- verb flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
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Examples
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This perfect fairy tale will get inside you from your guggle to your zatch.
Books: Jane Yolen 2008
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We used to run around the apartment threatening to slit each other from guggle to zatch.
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Yet Isinglass retained the most complete mastery of his ferocious-looking protégé, and beneath his skilful massage Hyldebrand would throw himself upon the ground and guggle in a porcine ecstacy.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 Various
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He drank from the jug's mouth, and the gurgling echo sounded down the empty hall: _Guggle -- guggle -- gone!
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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-- The Scotch, and English, _clunk_ must have different meanings: for Jamieson defines the verb _to clunk_ "to emit a hollow and interrupted sound, as that proceeding from any liquid confined in a cask, when shaken, if the cask be not full;" and _to guggle_, as a
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Suppose we must put up with that: sinks in our rooms, and pipes that rattle and bang and guggle all over the house whenever anyone washes his hands.
The Inca of Perusalem George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Squish, squash, bubble; squash, squish, guggle; and your feet as though you had been wading through slaughter to a throne.
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I heard the guggle of engines, the rattle of a little anchor going over not a hundred yards away, a cough, and Morgan's subdued hail. ...
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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I judged he was at proper distance, an 'thin I tuk him, fair an' square betune the eyes, all I knew for good or bad, an 'he dhropped wid a guggle like the canteen beer-engine whin ut's runnin' low.
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Squish, squash, bubble; squash, squish, guggle; and your feet as though you had been wading through slaughter to a throne.
minerva commented on the word guggle
Something rose in my throat, I know not what, which made me for a moment guggle, as it were, for speech...
Belford to Lovelace, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
January 9, 2008
jaime_d commented on the word guggle
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
March 6, 2011
qms commented on the word guggle
Getting ketchup to move is a struggle.
Some swear by the inverted juggle,
But the xanthan emulsion
Will give it propulsion
So shaking will make that jug guggle.
May 21, 2015