▪ I. gurgling, vbl. n.
(ˈgɜːglɪŋ)
[f. gurgle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. gurgle; the noisy intermittent flowing of liquid as from a narrow-necked bottle, etc.
| 1814 Southey Roderick Poet. Wks. 1838 IX. 52 The constant fall Of water its perpetual gurgling made. 1847 Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole xii. (1879) 112 In the gurgling of tall bottles..there is much music. 1876 Trans. Clinical Soc. IX. 192 The act of swallowing was imperfectly done, the patient taking cautious sips, and there being pharyngeal gurgling. 1880 Gilbert Pirates Penzance ii, He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling. 1883 C. J. Wills Mod. Persia 226 Camels have a habit of gurgling. |
▪ II. gurgling, ppl. a.
(ˈgɜːglɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That gurgles; emitting a sound as of bubbling liquid or purling water; characterized by gurgling.
| 1596 ? Spenser Thestylis 3 Gurgling sound Of Liffies tumbling streames. 1614 Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue v. 15 By some River's side Or gurgling Brook. 1631 Mabbe tr. De Rojas' Celestina (1894) xix. 266 Harken to the gurgling waters of this fountaine. 1725 Pope Odyss. xii. 361 Where a fountain's gurgling waters play, They rush to land. 1764 J. G. Cooper Tomb Shaks. 12 The nightingale..ceas'd to float The gurgling notes of her melodious woe. 1844 Dufton Deafness 79 On throwing air into the tympanum through the Eustachian tube, a distinct gurgling noise was heard. 1847 J. Wilson Chr. North (1857) I. 152 He pours the gurgling brandy down his throat. 1855 Longfellow Hiaw. viii. 94 Whirled the birch-canoe in circles, Round and round in gurgling eddies. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 838 Rumbling and gurgling sounds in the abdomen. |
Hence ˈgurglingly adv., with a gurgle.
| 1895 M. Corelli Sorrows Satan ix. (ed. 6) 103 ‘Murder!’ he whispered gurglingly. |