To make a gurgling or rumbling sound, often used of stomach noises or water flowing through narrow passages.
Related to 'gurggle' and Scandinavian roots; the word is an onomatopoeia that mimics the actual sound of liquid moving, with '-le' as a frequentative suffix meaning 'to do repeatedly or continuously.'
Gurdle is one of English's beautiful onomatopoetic verbs—words that sound like what they mean—and it reveals how our ancestors listened carefully to nature and used sound-imitation to name actions.
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