gurgle

1. 1.

   the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck

   Broadersound

Other forms of gurgle

plural

gurgles·

past tense

gurgled·

present participle

gurgling·

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.

Questions about gurgle

What does gurgle mean?

gurgle means "flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gurgle?

gurgle has 2 syllables: gur-gle. The stress falls on "gur". In IPA it is /ˈɡɝɡəl/.

What is another word for gurgle?

Close synonyms include ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gurgle a common word?

gurgle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.