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glug

glug

10 6.6
A gurgling sound when liquid pours from a bottle
  • noun
  • /ɡlʌɡ/
translation icon : gorgoteo
  • Glug, glug, glug.

So I went in, I bought a bottle of whiskey, a small bottle of whiskey and took a glug of that.

Examples

  • Iris mimes drinking, "glug, glug."

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The glug of it being poured.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • My dad... glug, glug, glug. - Oh.

    Poison Ivy (1992)

  • You must try our hot glug.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • "Glug, glug, goes the washer!"

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Glug glug a teensy bit into the pan.

    Blog text (25)

  • Glug, glug, glug.

    Accepted (2006)

  • Glug, glug.

    Epic Movie (2007)

  • Glug glug.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • I heard a loud glug as he poured the juice from the bottle into the glass.

Synonyms

gurgle
vsglug
10 3.5

A bubbling sound like water moving in a bottle

is a gulping intermittent pouring sound rather than a continuous bubble

How Loud

gush
6 4.3
splash
20 1.0
glug
10 6.6
gurgle
10 3.5
drip
44 1.0
to trickle
70 3.4

Surface Forms

glug singular
glugs plural

Etymology

Glug copies the noisy 'gurgle' made when liquid pours from a bottle. So, a glug is the gurgling or gulping sound you hear as a bottle empties.