different between slosh vs gurgle

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

(onomatopoeia); compare splash, splosh.

Verb

slosh (third-person singular simple present sloshes, present participle sloshing, simple past and past participle sloshed)

1. (intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

   The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.

2. (transitive, of a liquid) To cause to slosh

   The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.

3. (intransitive) To make a sloshing sound.

   They were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.

4. (transitive, of a liquid) To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts

   The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.

   He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.

5. (intransitive) to move noisily through water or other liquid.

   The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.

6. (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).

Derived terms

• aslosh

Translations

Noun

slosh (countable and uncountable, plural sloshes)

1. (countable) A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.

   We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.

2. (countable) A sloshing sound or motion.
3. (uncountable) Slush.
   • 2012, Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This (page 299)

     Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.

Coordinate terms

• splash

Etymology 2

By analogy with slash.

Noun

slosh (plural sloshes)

1. (computing, slang) backslash, the character \.

Anagrams

• Sohls

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