different between gurgle vs guggle

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 gurgle.

Verb

guggle (third-person singular simple present guggles, present participle guggling, simple past and past participle guggled)

1. To make a sound as of liquid being poured from a small-necked container
2. (of a liquid) To pour from a container and make this sound

Noun

guggle (plural guggles)

1. The sound of liquid being poured.

Synonyms

• gurgle