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▪ I. † glug, n.1 Obs.—1 [cf. glub1.] A clod.
1382Wyclif Job xxviii. 6 Place of a safyr is stones, and the gluggis [1388 clottis; L. glebæ] of hym gold. ▪ II. glug, n.2|glʌg| [echoic: cf. gluck n.] A word formed to imitate an inarticulate sound (see quots.). Also redupl. glug-glug.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 55 Pretty bottle, says Sganarelle, how sweet are thy little glug glugs. 1843Lever J. Hinton vi. (1878) 38 Glug, glug, glug, flowed the bubbling liquor. 1882G. Macdonald Castle Warlock xv. (1883) 83 Lord Mergwain listened to the glug-glug in the long neck of the decanter. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 275 While hesitating as to where was the next safe place to plant their feet, the place that they were standing on went in with a glug. ▪ III. glug, v.|glʌg| [echoic: cf. gluck v.] intr. To make the sound rendered by ‘glug’. Hence ˈglugging vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1895W. Wright Palmyra & Zen. xxviii. 343 Their voices, a kind of glugging bark, seemed borrowed from the camel. 1897Westm. Gaz. 6 Mar. 2/1 The..‘glugging’ of the liquor as it trickled down his throat. |