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Gurgle

noun

The bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck.

verb

(past & past part. gurgled;pres. part. gurgling)

Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise. Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, guggle, ripple.

Make sounds similar to gurgling water.

Drink from a flask with a gurgling sound. Synonym: guggle.

Utter with a gurgling sound.

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"Gurgle" Quotes from Famous Books

... bandage was leaning on the arm of a Briton whose other arm was in a sling. A giant Prussian bore a spectacled comrade pickaback. Germans impressed as litter-bearers brought in still forms in khaki. Water and tobacco, these are the bounties which no man refuses to another at such a time as this. The gurgle of a canteen at a parched mouth on that warm July day was the first gift to wounded Briton or German ...

— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... will appear translucent, and the outline of the yolk can be distinctly traced. By keeping, eggs become cloudy, and when decidedly stale, a distinct, dark, cloud-like appearance may be discerned opposite some portion of the shell. Another test is to shake the egg gently at the ear; if a gurgle or thud is heard, the egg is bad. Again, eggs may be tested by dropping into a vessel containing a solution of salt and water, in the proportion of a tablespoonful to a quart. Newly laid eggs will sink; if more than six days old, they will float in the liquid; if bad, they will be so light as to ...

— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

... through the forest the flyer afterward remembered little. At last the gurgle of water broke upon his pounding ears, as he stumbled along a good ten lengths behind his companions. They had come to the edge of the wood along ...

— The People of the Crater • Andrew North

... young lady, bursting forth into an unexpected gurgle of laughter, to which Bressant at once responded in kind, though having no idea what the merriment was about. "I wish you could see her! There couldn't be a greater difference ...

— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne

... death," Pee-wee whispered, so scared and excited, that his voice was hoarse. And just then we could hear a long kind of a gurgle and a man's voice saying, "I'll teach you! I'll teach you!" And then the two voices seemed to ...

— Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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