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▪ I. gurk, v. colloq.|gɜːk| [Echoic.] To belch. Hence ˈgurking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1923in J. Manchon Le Slang 146. 1946 B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays 34 Belching and gurking with ghoulish glee. 1948C. Fry Thor with Angels 7 Spit some words at me instead, and gurk Away your grudge. 1954G. Durrell Bafut Beagles iii. 56 The loudest and most awesome gurking noises I have heard from a squirrel. 1966New Statesman 10 June 839/2 They grunted and gurked with an unconcern that amazed me. ▪ II. gurk, n. colloq.|gɜːk| [See prec.] A belch.
1932N. Mitford Christmas Pudding x. 151 That's right, darling, have a good gurk. Ibid. 153 The silence was broken by a shattering gurk from Elspeth Paula. 1961G. Durrell Whispering Land iii. 75 It was not an accidental gurk, the minute breach of good manners that we are all liable to at times. This was a premeditated, rich and prolonged belch, with all the fervour of the Orient in it. 1962C. Middleton Torse 3 ii. 38 A too hard sniff culminates in a sly gurk. |