different between gurgle vs complain

English

Etymology

Back formation from Middle English gurguling (“a rumbling in the belly”). Akin to Middle Dutch gorgelen (“to gurgle”), Middle Low German gorgelen (“to gurgle”), German gurgeln (“to gargle”), and perhaps to Latin gurguli? (“throat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.??l/
• Rhymes: -??(r)??l

Verb

gurgle (third-person singular simple present gurgles, present participle gurgling, simple past and past participle gurgled)

1. To flow with a bubbling sound.

   The bath water gurgled down the drain.

   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.

2. To make such a sound.

   The baby gurgled with delight.

Translations

Noun

gurgle (plural gurgles)

1. A gurgling sound.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

Translations

Anagrams

• glurge, lugger

German

Verb

gurgle

1. inflection of gurgeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

English

Etymology

From Middle English complaynen, from Old French complaindre, from Medieval Latin complangere (“to bewail, complain”), from Latin com- (“together”) + plangere (“to strike, beat, as the breast in extreme grief, bewail”); see plain, plaint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?ple?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Verb

complain (third-person singular simple present complains, present participle complaining, simple past and past participle complained)

1. (intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
2. (intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
3. To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

Synonyms

• grumble
• grouse
• grump
• bitch
• beef
• gripe
• whine
• kvetch
• moan
• whinge
• See also Thesaurus:complain

Translations

Further reading

• complain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• complain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• amplicon