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guggle

American  
[guhg-uhl] / ˈgʌg əl /

verb (used with or without object)

guggled, guggling
  1. to gurgle.


noun

  1. a guggling sound; gurgle.

Etymology

Origin of guggle

1605–15; imitative; see -le

Example Sentences

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And about all she could do was to guggle in her throat and say: "James!"

From The Man Next Door by Emerson Hough

I heard the guggle of engines, the rattle of a little anchor going over not a hundred yards away, a cough, and Morgan's subdued hail.

From Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

Yet Isinglass retained the most complete mastery of his ferocious-looking protégé, and beneath his skilful massage Hyldebrand would throw himself upon the ground and guggle in a porcine ecstacy.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 by Various

Presently, trumpeting his mouth with his hands, he emitted a long, wailing sound: "Ugh, wugh, guggle, guggle!"

From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Ernest Fuhr

Suppose we must put up with that: sinks in our rooms, and pipes that rattle and bang and guggle all over the house whenever anyone washes his hands.

From The Inca of Perusalem by Bernard Shaw

It sank gradually bottom downwards, and the liquid guggled into it as it sank.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux

And, behind him, the Gau-Mukh guggled and choked like a man in his death-throe.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

The child, I am happy to tell you, Sir, responded at once to my paternal attention and guggled happily in reply.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman

Peter let the note fall on the floor, and stood with bent head by the side of Thomas's crib, while Thomas guggled his milk.

From The Lee Shore by Dame Rose Macaulay

Racey, with real tears in his eyes, looked up at Swing and guggled, "I'm sho shleepy!"

From The Heart of the Range by William Patterson White

For the most part a lather of Ritz-Brother grimacing and guggling, this Hollywood picture of hillbilly doings is typically untypical.

From Time Magazine Archive

Heerd him guggling," he said, "and thought as something were up.

From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes

Her shot blew me clean out of the water, and I stood there guggling like a born idiot.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

"Hwhat's that gawky guggling about?" said Mrs. O'Dowd.

From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Unfortunately, at the moment the city maidens reached the kitchen door leading from the living-room, Jeb was guggling loudly.

From Polly of Pebbly Pit by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

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