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▪ I. gurgle, n.|ˈgɜːg(ə)l|
[f. gurgle v. Cf. the parallel forms cited there.]
†1. = gargle n. 1. Obs.
1562W. Bullein Def. agst. Sickness, Compounds (1579) 35 b, A Gargarizme or washing Gurgle, for the Mouth and Throate.
2. The action or an act of gurgling; the noise made by liquid escaping intermittently from a vessel, of a stream flowing over a stony bed, etc.
1757W. Thompson Bower 26 Flow, flow, thou Crystall-Rill, With tinkling gurgles fill The Mazes of the Grove. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 9 A gurgle of innumerable emptying bumpers. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. viii. 59 Streams..plunged into the depths of the ice, flowed under it with hollow gurgle. 1879R. H. Elliot Written on Forehead I. 119 The gurgle made by the pebbles of the shingle as they roll ceaselessly to and fro. 1897Blackmore in Blackw. Mag. Sept. 362 The light itself seemed to come in gurgles.
b. A guttural sound such as is produced by irregular emission of air from the throat, gargling, or the like.
1862Shirley Nugæ Crit. vi. 239 The rich gurgle of the peesweet. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. vi. ii. (1872) II. 140 He..gasped some gurgle of a sound like ‘Osnabrück’. 1869Trollope He knew xxiv. (1878) 136 There came a faint sound as of an hysterical sob, and then a gurgle in the throat.
▪ II. gurgle, v.|ˈgɜːg(ə)l|
Also 6 gurgull.
[Parallel forms are Du., MLG. gorgelen, G. gurgeln (Sw. gurgla, Da. gurgle, prob. from LG.) to gargle, and It. gorgogliare to gargle, bubble up, boil, rattle, Pg. gurgulhar to gush out, bubble, perh.:—L. *gurguliāre, f. gurgulio gullet, which appears to be the origin of the cogn. ns. Du. gorgel, OHG. gurgulâ (MHG., G. gurgel) and Pr. gorgolh. Whether the Eng. word is a direct adaptation of any of those vbs. or is a native echoic formation is not clear. Cf. gargle, guggle.]
†1. intr. = gargle v. Obs.
1562W. Bullein Def. agst. Sickness, Compounds (1579) 35 b, marg. A gargarizme to gurgull in the mouth and throate. 1611Florio, Gargareggiare, to gargarize, to gurgle.
2. Of water or other liquid: To flow in a broken irregular current, with intermittent low noises, as water from a bottle, or a stream among stones.
[1635: see gurl v. 2.] 1713Rowe Lady Jane Grey ii. i. Wks. (1720) 33 Neverceasing Waters..That purl and gurgle o'er their Sands for ever. 1789Burns To Mary in Heaven iii, Ayr gurgling kiss'd his pebbled shore. 1821Keats Isabella xxvii, Where Arno's stream Gurgles through straighten'd banks. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lix, He..sent the wine gurgling down his throat. 1894Sala London up to Date ii. 32 Rare hocks that gurgle in the glass when poured out.
b. transf. To make a noise as of liquid issuing from a bottle, bubbling, or the like; to utter intermittent guttural sounds.
1779Mason Eng. Garden iii. 487 She will plain, and gurgle, as she goes, As does the widow'd ring-dove. 1857–8Sears Athan. ii. xi. 240 Paul is so full of this thought, that, whenever he touches upon the theme, his language gurgles from his lips. 1880Jefferies Gt. Estate vii. 133 The cuckoo began to lose his voice; he gurgled and gasped, and cried ‘cuck—kuk—kwai—kash’. 1892Sunday Mag. June 425/1 Baby is lying in mother's lap, crooling and gurgling.
3. trans. To utter with gurgling sounds. Also, to gurgle down: to swallow with a gurgle.
1814Cary Dante, Inf. vii. 128 Such dolorous strain they gurgle in their throats. 1825C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 314 Gurgling down the glutinous calipash. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. iii, He gurgled-out his pursy chuckle of a cough-laugh. 1854Thackeray Newcomes I. ix. 96 ‘A mother's bl-l-essings go with you’, gurgled the lady. 1865J. Thomson Sunday up River xi. iii, When your voice has gurgled the last sweet note. |