gurgle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck
  2. verb flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
    babble; burble; guggle; ripple; bubble.
    • babbling brooks
  3. verb make sounds similar to gurgling water
    • The baby gurgled with satisfaction when the mother tickled it
  4. verb drink from a flask with a gurgling sound
    guggle.
  5. verb utter with a gurgling sound
    • `Help,' the stabbing victim gurgled

WordNet

Gur"gle intransitive verb
Etymology
Cf. It. gorgogliare to gargle, bubble up, fr. L. gurgulio gullet. Cf. Gargle, Gorge.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Gurgled ;present participle & verbal noun Gurgling
Definitions
  1. To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.
    Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race. Young.
Gur"gle noun
Definitions
  1. The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles." W. Thompson.

Webster 1913