Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - gurgle

(gurgles, gurgling, gurgled) 1. If water is gurgling, it is making the sound that it makes when it flows quickly and unevenly through a narrow space. ...a narrow stone-edged channel along which water gurgles unseen. VERB: V adv/prep • Gurgle is also a noun. We could hear the swish and gurgle of water against the hull. N-COUNT 2. If someone, especially a baby, is gurgling, they are making a sound in their throat similar to the gurgling of water. Henry gurgles happily in his baby chair. VERB: V • Gurgle is also a noun. There was a gurgle of laughter on the other end of the line. N-COUNT