gurgle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gurgle	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for gurgle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gurgle n the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck v flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks" Synonym(s): ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle make sounds similar to gurgling water; "The baby gurgled with satisfaction when the mother tickled it" drink from a flask with a gurgling sound Synonym(s): guggle, gurgle utter with a gurgling sound; "`Help,' the stabbing victim gurgled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gurgle \Gur"gle\, n. The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles." --W. Thompson.