Gurgle \Gur"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gurgled;p. pr. & vb. n.
Gurgling.]
[Cf. It. gorgogliare to gargle, bubble up, fr.
L. gurgulio gullet. Cf. Gargle, Gorge.]
To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as
water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or
stones.
[1913 Webster]
Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace,
And waste their music on the savage race. --Young.
[1913 Webster]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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52 Moby Thesaurus words for "gurgle":
babble, babbling, blubber, boil, boil over, bubble, bubble over,
bubble up, bubbling, burble, burbling, condense, distill, dribble,
drip, dripple, drop, effervesce, ferment, filter, fizz, fizzle,
guggle, gurgling, hiss, lap, leach, lixiviate, murmur, murmuring,
percolate, plash, plashing, plop, purl, ripple, seep, seethe,
simmer, slosh, sparkle, splash, splashing, spurtle, swash, sweat,
swish, trickle, trill, wash, weep, work
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Gurgle \Gur"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gurgled;p. pr. & vb. n.
Gurgling.]
[Cf. It. gorgogliare to gargle, bubble up, fr.
L. gurgulio gullet. Cf. Gargle, Gorge.]
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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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