单词 | gluck |
释义 | gluckn. An inarticulate sound supposed to be expressed by this spelling. So with reduplication gluck-gluck n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [noun] > glug glug1768 glub1794 gluck1880 1880 Chambers's Jrnl. No. 202. 635 It is as when we pour liquid from a full bottle; at first it runs intermittently, with a ‘gluk-gluk’. 1892 Sportsman 9 July 8/1 A clatter of knives and forks on plates..a ‘gluck-gluck’ of poured out drinks, and the merry laughter of the lunchers. 1894 H. Caine Manxman 113 The swish of the scythe..the gluck of the wheels of the cart. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2018). gluckv. intransitive. To make a sound rendered by ‘gluck’. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > glug guggle1611 cluck1729 glug1895 gluck1898 gubble1904 1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 19 The blood glucked at the thrapple. Derivatives ˈglucking n. and adj. ΚΠ 1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. ii. 29 The glucking bird—by which name, in consequence of its note, the bird may be distinguished—was heard through the night. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvii. 120 A mellow glucking sound..continued long afterwards. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1880v.1847 |
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