guggle

American  

[guhg-uhl] / ˈgʌg əl /

verb (used with or without object)

guggled, guggling

1. to gurgle.

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noun

1. a guggling sound; gurgle.

Etymology

Origin of guggle

1605–15; imitative; see -le

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

guggle guggled guggling

I grabbed for it, made some racket and some of the metheglin came out, guggle, guggle, good, good, and down it went to the chamber floor, which was made of loose boards.

From The Bark Covered House by William Nowlin

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

There was the usual combination of sounds beneath and around me,—the mixture of guggle, clunk, and splash,—of low, continuous rush, and bluff, loud blow, which forms in such circumstances the voyager's concert.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds

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

From The Man Next Door by Emerson Hough

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

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

"Ah-ugh!" guggled Molly, squirming on the ground, for she had struck the pit of her stomach on a round rock the size of a football and the wind was knocked out of her.

From The Heart of the Range by William Patterson White

I at once took the child in my arms and guggled to it.

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

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

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

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

Then suddenly came a low guggling, gargling sound, and a brisk drumming upon woodwork.

From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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

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

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