gurgles
SayGUR-guhlz/ˈɡɝ.ɡl̩z/UK/ˈɡɜː.ɡl̩z/
- 1Plural of gurgle.
Soft gurgles rose from the stream as it slipped over the rocks.
The infant answered her mother with a string of contented gurgles.
Note
A countable noun built on the verb: a gurgle is one burst of the bubbling sound a stream or a contented infant makes, and the plural counts those bursts. The same spelling also serves as the present-tense verb (the water gurgles). Read the words around it: an adjective or a phrase like a string of before it marks the noun, and a singular subject before it marks the verb.
gurgles is a form of gurgle
gurgle, noun: A bubbling, rippling sound made by liquid or in the throat. Full entry
- Forms
- gurglegurgles plural
- Spelling
- gurgle → gurgles: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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