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gurgle verb [ ˈɡəːɡ(ə)l ]

• make a hollow bubbling sound like that made by water running out of a bottle.
• "my stomach gurgled"
Similar: babble, burble, tinkle, bubble, ripple, murmur, purl, lap, trickle, splash, plash,

gurgle noun

• a gurgling sound.
• "Catherine gave a gurgle of laughter"
Similar: babble, babbling, tinkle, bubbling, ripple, rippling, trickling, murmur, murmuring, purling, splashing, 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’.


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