Definition of glottal in English:
glottal
adjective ˈɡlɒt(ə)lˈɡlɑdl
Of or produced by the glottis.
the unmistakable glottal accent of my home town
Example sentencesExamples
- She employs dramatic chest tones and an occasional glottal attack in her denunciation of the oracles.
- Modern phoneticians would more precisely categorize such consonants into velar, uvular, pharyngeal, and glottal articulations.
- But one thing holds him back: the facial tics, glottal sounds, and uncontrollable gestures of Tourette's Syndrome.
- Water would have been excluded from the trachea during normal swimming and in heavy seas, by a glottal valve and a large muscular tongue.
- Many have strangely unresonant, throat-blocked, or glottal voices and use ‘up-talk,’ the tendency to end all sentences in a rising, questioning inflection.’
Rhymes
axolotl, bottle, dottle, mottle, pottle, throttle, wattle