different between gurgle vs gurge

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Etymology 1

See gorge.

Verb

gurge (third-person singular simple present gurges, present participle gurging, simple past and past participle gurged)

1. (obsolete) To swallow up.

Etymology 2

From Latin gurges.

Noun

gurge (plural gurges)

1. (obsolete) A whirlpool.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 12, lines 41-42,^[1]

     The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge

     Boils out from under ground […]

Anagrams

• Ugger, ugger

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gurges.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ur.d??e/
• Hyphenation: gùr?ge

Noun

gurge f (plural gurgi)

1. (poetic) whirlpool, vortex

   Synonyms: gorgo, (poetic) gurgite

Related terms

• gorgo
• gurgite
• ingurgitare

References

• gurge in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana