gurge
English
editPronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɜɹdʒ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɜːdʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Etymology 1
editSee gorge.
Verb
editgurge (third-person singular simple present gurges, present participle gurging, simple past and past participle gurged)
- (obsolete) To swallow up.
Etymology 2
editFrom Latin gurges, taken to be a plural.
Noun
editgurge (plural gurges)
- (obsolete outside heraldry) Synonym of gurges (“whirlpool”).
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost[1], Book 12, lines 41-42:
- The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge
Boils out from under ground […]
References
edit- “gurge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editItalian
editEtymology
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editNoun
editgurge f (plural gurgi)
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editFurther reading
edit- gurge in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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