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One of the other things they do is give their loud 'gurk-lurk' calls alerting you to the fact that they're actually in a certain thicket, whereas if they'd keep their beaks shut, you'd never know they were there!
Not just pretty feathers Carla 2010
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Is teh see-quell wut Ai finds on mai carpet in teh middle ub deh nite, ushuaaly wif mei toes, aftur the “gurk gurk gurk” noyz?
Roun an - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Shea are lorning obsen so hurgle up, gandfarder, and gurgle me gurk.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Bong gurk = outer shin bock with the knee turned outward
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Faun au gurk or fong ngau gurk = reverse roundhouse
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Chi seurng gurk or chi gurk = double sticky legs exercise
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Huen gurk = any circle kick huen jing gurk = circling front kick huen wang gurk = circling side kick huen tiu gurk = circling instep kick
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Jing dok lop ma or jing gurk dok lop ma = front single leg stance
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Chai gurk = any kick that stamps down; also a scraping kick contacting with the blade edge of the foot
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Gaan gurk = 3 leg blocking exercise with the following blocks: dai jing gurk = low front kick blocking with the calf muscle bong gurk = shin block jut gurk = snapping block
yarb commented on the word gurk
To belch.
"You are an infant. The bards drool your praises. The grown-ups pat your teeny-weeny bottom. They call you bambino and piccaninny. You adore teddy bears. You gurk. You wear coatees, shawls, gowns, bonnets, bootees..."
- G.V. Desani, All About H. Hatterr (1945), p. 146 of NYRB 2008 edition
December 31, 2008
whichbe commented on the word gurk
This sounds like the first room in a MUD.
December 31, 2008
yarb commented on the word gurk
Ha ha!
December 31, 2008
yarb commented on the word gurk
...ah, god, the good old days, when I said kiss me - all it took - kiss me and you came ... a youthful thing, I'd say, like the nervous spill of a boy who thinks he has you pinned in the backseat of his father's Ford but can't get it in and gurks instead on your hand or wets your thigh...
- William Gass, The Tunnel
May 11, 2009