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say it: GAHR-goyl
gargoyle is a noun meaning "a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal". It is pronounced /ˈɡɑɹˌɡɔɪl/ — GAHR-goyl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gargoyle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.