gurge

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ

Etymology 1

See gorge.

Verb

gurge (third-person singular simple present gurges, present participle gurging, simple past and past participle gurged)

  1. (obsolete) To swallow up.

Etymology 2

From Latin gurges .

Noun

gurge (plural gurges)

  1. (obsolete) A whirlpool.
    • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 12, lines 41-42,
      The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge
      Boils out from under ground […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gurge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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