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

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

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)

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

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

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

"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 White, William Patterson

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

From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson

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

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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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.