单词 | glug |
释义 | † glugn.1 Obsolete. rare. A clod. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] > clod clouta1250 gluga1382 clotc1400 clodc1440 glebea1513 turf1607 clat1628 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxviii. 6 Place of a safyr is stones, and the gluggis [a1425 L.V. clottis; L. glebæ] of hym gold. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). glugn.2 A word formed to imitate an inarticulate sound (see quots.). Also reduplicated glug-glug n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [noun] > glug glug1768 glub1794 gluck1880 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 127 Pretty bottle, says Sganarelle, how sweet are thy little glug glugs! 1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton (1878) vi. 38 Glug, glug, glug, flowed the bubbling liquor. 1882 G. MacDonald Castle Warlock (1883) xv. 83 Lord Mergwain listened to the glug-glug in the long neck of the decanter. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 275 While hesitating as to where was the next safe place to plant their feet, the place that they were standing on went in with a glug. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). glugv. intransitive. To make the sound rendered by ‘glug’. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > glug guggle1611 cluck1729 glug1895 gluck1898 gubble1904 1895 H. Pyle Story Jack Ballister's Fortunes 268 Then he sat down upon the rail for a talk, while the water glugged. Derivatives ˈglugging n. and adj. ΚΠ 1895 W. Wright Palmyra & Zenobia xxviii. 343 Their voices, a kind of glugging bark, seemed borrowed from the camel. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 6 Mar. 2/1 The..‘glugging’ of the liquor as it trickled down his throat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1382n.21768v.1895 |
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