different between gurgle vs gibber

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 1

Uncertain; see gibberish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??b?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?b?(r)

Noun

gibber (countable and uncountable, plural gibbers)

1. Gibberish, unintelligible speech.

Verb

gibber (third-person singular simple present gibbers, present participle gibbering, simple past and past participle gibbered)

1. To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.

Translations

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:chatter

Etymology 2

From Dharug giba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b?/

Noun

gibber (plural gibbers)

1. (Australia) A boulder, a stone; a mass of stone. [from 18th c.]

Derived terms

• gibber bird
• gibber stone

See also

• reg, desert pavement

Etymology 3

gib +? -er

Noun

gibber (plural gibbers)

1. A balky horse.
   • 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse

     A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber

References

gibber in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??ib.ber/, [???b??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d??ib.ber/, [?d??ib??r]

Adjective

gibber (feminine gibbera, neuter gibberum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. humpbacked, hunchbacked

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Noun

gibber m (genitive gibberis); third declension

1. a hump, hunch on the back

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (hump, hunch): gibbus

Derived terms

• gibber?sus

Related terms

• gibbus

References

• gibber in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gibber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette