guggle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of guggle
1605–15; imitative; see -le
Example Sentences
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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 Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)
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
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 Nowlin, William
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 Fuhr, Ernest
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 Kipling, Rudyard
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