Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be âsatanic.â However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
GURGLE
gurgle
(noun) the bubbling sound of water flowing from a bottle with a narrow neck
gurgle
(verb) utter with a gurgling sound; ââHelp,â the stabbing victim gurgledâ
guggle, gurgle
(verb) drink from a flask with a gurgling sound
gurgle
(verb) make sounds similar to gurgling water; âThe baby gurgled with satisfaction when the mother tickled itâ
ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle
(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; âbabbling brooksâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
gurgle (third-person singular simple present gurgles, present participle gurgling, simple past and past participle gurgled)
To flow with a bubbling sound.
To make such a sound.
Noun
gurgle (plural gurgles)
A gurgling sound.
Anagrams
• glurge, lugger
Source: Wiktionary
Gur"gle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gurgled;p. pr. & vb. n. Gurgling.] Etym: [Cf. It. gorgogliare to gargle, bubble up, fr. L. gurgulio gullet. Cf. Gargle, Gorge.]
Definition: To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones. Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race. Young.
Gur"gle, n.
Definition: The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles." W. Thompson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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