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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

guggle guggled guggling

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

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)

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

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

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 Shaw, Bernard

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 Macaulay, Rose, Dame

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 Seaman, Owen, Sir

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 Arnoux, L.

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 Kipling, Rudyard

Hurree Babu reached for the pipe, and sucked it till it guggled again.

From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard

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 Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph

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

From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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

From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.

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 Roy, Lillian Elizabeth