gurge
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɜɹdʒ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɜːdʒ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Etymology 1 edit
See gorge.
Verb edit
gurge (third-person singular simple present gurges, present participle gurging, simple past and past participle gurged)
- (obsolete) To swallow up.
Etymology 2 edit
From Latin gurges, taken to be a plural.
Noun edit
gurge (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 edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gurge f (plural gurgi)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- gurge in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana