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单词 gurgle
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Definition of gurgle in English:

gurgle

verb ˈɡəːɡ(ə)lˈɡərɡəl
[no object]
  • 1Make a hollow bubbling sound like that made by water running out of a bottle.

    my stomach gurgled
    Example sentencesExamples
    • After a minute or two, I can feel the mud burbling and gurgling next to my skin, beneath the clingfilm.
    • I can feel my stomach gurgling and any minute now it's going to make some noise.
    • As if in answer, my stomach growled and gurgled loudly.
    • Plus he could here his stomach gurgling out of hunger of a full hectic day that included no meal time whatsoever.
    • Katie heard the distinct sounds of water gurgling and wind whistling though caves in the rock.
    • But she was taking her sweet time and my stomach was gurgling in protest, so I wandered over the supermarket for some chocolate.
    • Orangutans, gorillas, and their ape relatives, meanwhile, will ineffectually thrash around in deep water or simply gurgle and sink.
    • My stomach gurgled, anticipating the moment coming.
    • Once I got settled in a sitting position, my stomach decided to gurgle and I had realized for the first time in days that I was hungry.
    • My stomach gurgled once more and I stared him down.
    • Almost immediately after that, my stomach gurgled.
    • Several bottles of fine Chardonnay gurgled in Ted's pack.
    • James gurgled with what sounded like glee, though I reasoned babies that young shouldn't know about glee yet.
    • My stomach is gurgling, turning over and over inside my belly.
    • Gabrielle splashed happily, gurgling as the warm water trickled down her front.
    • My stomach gurgled as I closed the door with a sigh.
    • I cough, my stomach growling and gurgling, my whole body shaking, which disturbs the creature and makes it shift more.
    • My stomach gurgled uneasily and I felt my face flush green.
    • Her often unintelligible language is as nascent as the land itself; sounds not yet words gurgle like the very volcanoes that created her native surroundings.
    • From somewhere far away, a fountain gurgled and splashed.
    Synonyms
    babble, burble, tinkle, bubble, ripple, murmur, purl, lap, trickle, splash
    literary plash
    1. 1.1with adverbial of direction (of a liquid) run or flow with a gurgling sound.
      the rain gurgled along the gutters
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A small crystalline brook gurgled over worn round stones as it ran to its destination.
      • From the floor of the second pitch, the water gurgles down a tight rift, but our route is along a traverse following a washed-out shale band.
      • When the water got cold I kicked the faucet and let it run until water gurgled into the overflow.
      • Then, it turns into a stream that gurgles past sleepy hamlets and sylvan surroundings.
      • Water gurgled out of the rock, catching the desert sun like a shimmering, living jewel.
      • Water gurgled up out of the hole and the ice around it began to leak through long fissures.
      • Once the water was gurgling through the machine, Clara collapsed into a chair at the table out of breath and limp from the effort.
      • The water gurgles between golden sand banks and rugged grey granite boulders that have given one island its name, Elephantine.
      • Water gurgled down in streams from the tin roof.
      • I splashed the cool water on my face and watched as the steady stream flowed from the faucet into the porcelain basin and gurgled down the drain.
      • Yet below the mesquite bosk that edges the bed of Cienagua Creek, water gurgles up and flows intermittently from a mostly underground stream.
      • We stopped near a small spring that gurgled its way through the dense forest of rocks.
      • There was no bridge, but flat ferry-rafts winched their way across it on heavy cables, and icy, slate-gray water gurgled under a dull, pewter sky.
      • On the winding cobblestone streets of Lijiang's old town, canals and streams gurgled beneath gently sloping foot bridges.
      • Just outside my sala a small stream gurgles its way over a waterfall down to an ornamental lake.
      • The water from twin streams gurgled over sculpted rocks on either side and collected into kidney shaped pools where rainbow-coloured carp circled and fed.
      • As the stream gurgles through the mountain into the valley, a young shepherd tends to the cattle, seated under a large tree.
      • A terracotta pot stands at the top of the feature, with water gurgling out into the pool below.
      • A brook gurgled by peacefully and there, nestled against the coniferous trees, was a hut.
      Synonyms
      run, move, go along, course, pass, proceed, glide, slide, drift, circulate, trickle, dribble, drizzle, spill, babble, ripple
    2. 1.2 (of a baby) make a contented sound.
      the baby snuggled closer to Julie and gurgled
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Little Eve is coming on nicely and is sitting up and gurgling and vocalising.
      • At the party Lillian Rose, wearing the rosebud dress bought by Yvonne, gurgled happily in her cot.
      • As they gurgle and coo and laugh like crazy we realise they still possess something we have lost.
      • She planted little kisses across its forehead and it gurgled.
      • As soon as the researchers restored real-time communication, the baby resumed gurgling and kicking its feet contentedly.
      • The little girl gurgled at her aunt.
      • A baby is more than pretty little clothes on a gurgling bundle in the best pram around.
      • Come the end of January there will be a brand new bouncing baby gurgling away.
      • Even as a baby she did not gurgle or babble in her cot and instead remained silent.
      • We decided to have bits of running commentary and you often hear the baby gurgling in the background.
      • A baby in diapers makes the gurgling noises appropriate to a baby in diapers; the baby is hit on the hand and wails.
      • "Yama," Shel gurgled, crawling to his mother's lap, leaving the beads he'd been playing with lying in the dirt.
      • She remembered the beautiful sweet natured baby gurgling happily in her arms.
      • Her granddaughter, too young to walk, gurgles from the foot of the bed.
      • In my earliest years ' just another day ' would have involved gurgling around in nappies.
      • Note the toddler ' gurgling in her high chair ' at the end of stanza two.
      • I couldn't take my eyes off the baby, which stopped crying and started to stare at me and then smiled and gurgled.
      • The other daughter is only a few months old and hasn't yet made it past cooing and gurgling.
      • In the first year, babies should " communicate in a variety of ways, including crying, gurgling, babbling and squealing ".
      • He pushed the pram straight, his little baby boy inside, gurgling at the world.
noun ˈɡəːɡ(ə)lˈɡərɡəl
  • A gurgling sound.

    Catherine gave a gurgle of laughter
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They look sweet, they don't answer back, and their thought process is hidden behind gurgles and smiles.
    • The beat is the traditional 4/4 house beat, with plenty of skittering gurgles and found sounds mixed in.
    • From inside, there came the sound of women's chatter, as well as the gurgle of happy babies.
    • Needless to say I arrived at the meeting and, much to my relief, managed to control myself sufficiently to avoid any embarrassing gurgles…
    • Continuing upward, we passed an old log barn from which we could hear the companionable gurgles and neck bells of sheep, safely shut away behind a door.
    • Lucy pointed, too, and made some gurgles, and even patted the boom mike while the cameras rolled.
    • He felt a small gurgle of laughter in the back of his throat, at let it come, slipping into a smirk and then morphing into a grin.
    • I couldn't stop the gurgle of laughter erupting.
    • Now, add a splash of peach schnapps, then a gurgle or two of Jack Daniels.
    • A gurgle, sounding very similar to a laugh, replaced her cries, and a smile graced her face as Trent picked her up.
    • The chirpy gurgles of my child takes away all the unhappiness at the end of a hard day's work.
    • He heard waves pounding in his ears, the soft gurgle beneath the waves, the silty sound of sand being moved within hidden currents.
    • A celestial organ devolves into the shrill shrieks of swooping banshees, and deep rumbles sound like the dyspeptic gurgles in a huge beasts' stomach.
    • I tried to speak, to say that of course I could, but a gurgle was all that sounded.
    • And then there's these strange noises that sound a bit like a cat only quieter and with occasional gurgles.
    • The distinctive whining of a straining shield generator sounded, followed by the gurgle of flushing coolant, a desperate attempt by engineering to make the generator last longer.
    • In the quiet hours before midnight I lay with my ear to the place and heard the trickling as from a spring, the gurgles and sucks and splashings.
    • I think I'm fascinated by all the food bits in my kitchen the way new parents are fascinated by all the gurgles and faces on their wee ones.
    • But the flip side is the footballer who hates to lose, and no matter how cute the tot's gurgles are, he won't lift his father's spirits if Celtic and Ross County succeed where Iceland and Canada failed.
    • Bowel sounds vary greatly in pitch and quality, being low-pitched or high-pitched gurgles or rumbles. ‘Tinkling’ bowel sounds represent bowel obstruction.
    Synonyms
    babble, babbling, tinkle, bubbling, ripple, rippling, trickling, murmur, murmuring, purling, splashing
    literary plashing
    chuckle, chortle, burble, giggle
    crow

Origin

Late Middle English: imitative, or directly from Dutch gorgelen, German gurgeln, or medieval Latin gurgulare, all from Latin gurgulio 'gullet'.

Rhymes

burghal, burgle, Fergal
 
 

Definition of gurgle in US English:

gurgle

verbˈɡərɡəlˈɡərɡəl
[no object]
  • 1Make a hollow bubbling sound like that made by water running out of a bottle.

    my stomach gurgled
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I cough, my stomach growling and gurgling, my whole body shaking, which disturbs the creature and makes it shift more.
    • My stomach is gurgling, turning over and over inside my belly.
    • James gurgled with what sounded like glee, though I reasoned babies that young shouldn't know about glee yet.
    • Once I got settled in a sitting position, my stomach decided to gurgle and I had realized for the first time in days that I was hungry.
    • My stomach gurgled, anticipating the moment coming.
    • My stomach gurgled as I closed the door with a sigh.
    • I can feel my stomach gurgling and any minute now it's going to make some noise.
    • Plus he could here his stomach gurgling out of hunger of a full hectic day that included no meal time whatsoever.
    • After a minute or two, I can feel the mud burbling and gurgling next to my skin, beneath the clingfilm.
    • But she was taking her sweet time and my stomach was gurgling in protest, so I wandered over the supermarket for some chocolate.
    • Her often unintelligible language is as nascent as the land itself; sounds not yet words gurgle like the very volcanoes that created her native surroundings.
    • Several bottles of fine Chardonnay gurgled in Ted's pack.
    • As if in answer, my stomach growled and gurgled loudly.
    • From somewhere far away, a fountain gurgled and splashed.
    • My stomach gurgled once more and I stared him down.
    • Gabrielle splashed happily, gurgling as the warm water trickled down her front.
    • My stomach gurgled uneasily and I felt my face flush green.
    • Orangutans, gorillas, and their ape relatives, meanwhile, will ineffectually thrash around in deep water or simply gurgle and sink.
    • Almost immediately after that, my stomach gurgled.
    • Katie heard the distinct sounds of water gurgling and wind whistling though caves in the rock.
    Synonyms
    babble, burble, tinkle, bubble, ripple, murmur, purl, lap, trickle, splash
    1. 1.1with adverbial of direction (of a liquid) run or flow with a bubbling sound.
      chemicals gurgle down a drain straight into the sewers
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Then, it turns into a stream that gurgles past sleepy hamlets and sylvan surroundings.
      • From the floor of the second pitch, the water gurgles down a tight rift, but our route is along a traverse following a washed-out shale band.
      • On the winding cobblestone streets of Lijiang's old town, canals and streams gurgled beneath gently sloping foot bridges.
      • Once the water was gurgling through the machine, Clara collapsed into a chair at the table out of breath and limp from the effort.
      • There was no bridge, but flat ferry-rafts winched their way across it on heavy cables, and icy, slate-gray water gurgled under a dull, pewter sky.
      • When the water got cold I kicked the faucet and let it run until water gurgled into the overflow.
      • A terracotta pot stands at the top of the feature, with water gurgling out into the pool below.
      • A small crystalline brook gurgled over worn round stones as it ran to its destination.
      • As the stream gurgles through the mountain into the valley, a young shepherd tends to the cattle, seated under a large tree.
      • Water gurgled up out of the hole and the ice around it began to leak through long fissures.
      • Yet below the mesquite bosk that edges the bed of Cienagua Creek, water gurgles up and flows intermittently from a mostly underground stream.
      • Water gurgled down in streams from the tin roof.
      • We stopped near a small spring that gurgled its way through the dense forest of rocks.
      • A brook gurgled by peacefully and there, nestled against the coniferous trees, was a hut.
      • The water gurgles between golden sand banks and rugged grey granite boulders that have given one island its name, Elephantine.
      • Water gurgled out of the rock, catching the desert sun like a shimmering, living jewel.
      • I splashed the cool water on my face and watched as the steady stream flowed from the faucet into the porcelain basin and gurgled down the drain.
      • The water from twin streams gurgled over sculpted rocks on either side and collected into kidney shaped pools where rainbow-coloured carp circled and fed.
      • Just outside my sala a small stream gurgles its way over a waterfall down to an ornamental lake.
      Synonyms
      run, move, go along, course, pass, proceed, glide, slide, drift, circulate, trickle, dribble, drizzle, spill, babble, ripple
nounˈɡərɡəlˈɡərɡəl
  • A gurgling sound.

    Catherine gave a gurgle of laughter
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I tried to speak, to say that of course I could, but a gurgle was all that sounded.
    • A gurgle, sounding very similar to a laugh, replaced her cries, and a smile graced her face as Trent picked her up.
    • The distinctive whining of a straining shield generator sounded, followed by the gurgle of flushing coolant, a desperate attempt by engineering to make the generator last longer.
    • The chirpy gurgles of my child takes away all the unhappiness at the end of a hard day's work.
    • He felt a small gurgle of laughter in the back of his throat, at let it come, slipping into a smirk and then morphing into a grin.
    • Needless to say I arrived at the meeting and, much to my relief, managed to control myself sufficiently to avoid any embarrassing gurgles…
    • I think I'm fascinated by all the food bits in my kitchen the way new parents are fascinated by all the gurgles and faces on their wee ones.
    • And then there's these strange noises that sound a bit like a cat only quieter and with occasional gurgles.
    • Lucy pointed, too, and made some gurgles, and even patted the boom mike while the cameras rolled.
    • But the flip side is the footballer who hates to lose, and no matter how cute the tot's gurgles are, he won't lift his father's spirits if Celtic and Ross County succeed where Iceland and Canada failed.
    • A celestial organ devolves into the shrill shrieks of swooping banshees, and deep rumbles sound like the dyspeptic gurgles in a huge beasts' stomach.
    • He heard waves pounding in his ears, the soft gurgle beneath the waves, the silty sound of sand being moved within hidden currents.
    • They look sweet, they don't answer back, and their thought process is hidden behind gurgles and smiles.
    • Continuing upward, we passed an old log barn from which we could hear the companionable gurgles and neck bells of sheep, safely shut away behind a door.
    • Now, add a splash of peach schnapps, then a gurgle or two of Jack Daniels.
    • Bowel sounds vary greatly in pitch and quality, being low-pitched or high-pitched gurgles or rumbles. ‘Tinkling’ bowel sounds represent bowel obstruction.
    • In the quiet hours before midnight I lay with my ear to the place and heard the trickling as from a spring, the gurgles and sucks and splashings.
    • From inside, there came the sound of women's chatter, as well as the gurgle of happy babies.
    • The beat is the traditional 4/4 house beat, with plenty of skittering gurgles and found sounds mixed in.
    • I couldn't stop the gurgle of laughter erupting.
    Synonyms
    babble, babbling, tinkle, bubbling, ripple, rippling, trickling, murmur, murmuring, purling, splashing
    chuckle, chortle, burble, giggle

Origin

Late Middle English: imitative, or directly from Dutch gorgelen, German gurgeln, or medieval Latin gurgulare, all from Latin gurgulio ‘gullet’.

 
 
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