to glug

Examples

• All

• But if we just call it glug, glug, glug, there's no suspense in that.

• Spasmodically, Bill clutched the handle of the pump until the attendant hit the flashing button on his console and the petrol began to glug and course.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Glug glug glug glug glug glug glug glug glug glug.

• Glug glug a teensy bit into the pan.

  Blog text (25)

• You got to guess, lots of liquids being glugged after some dry goods being plopped.

• Back in the 70s, when I was 8, I didn't know or care; I could glug gallons of the stuff.

  Blog text (16)

• When cool, I poured some into a 1.5-litre juice bottle, which is light to handle; it glugs out freely.

  Blog text (18)

• We'd squat by the creek waiting for the bottle to glug full through its narrow neck, and then together we would walk to the church and throw the water on the fire a quart at a time, not so much in hope of putting it out as to be able to say, if asked, that we tried.

  Fiction book (1997)

• The old watering can would glug loudly as he filled it from the rain barrel.

• Whenever she tried to pour from the narrow-necked flask, it would often glug and spill some on the table.

Synonyms

G

to gurgle

vsto glug

27 3.7

To make a bubbling sound like water moving in a bottle

is focused on the pouring noise from a narrow necked container

B

to burble

vsto glug

5 7.5

To make a soft low sound like water moving over stones

is about the specific pouring noise rather than steady flowing motion

B

to bloop

vsto glug

1 6.7

To make a short, soft popping sound in a liquid

is a longer gurgling noise that happens when pouring from a narrow neck

G

to guggle

vsto glug

1 9.9

To make a soft bubbling sound when liquid moves or someone pours it

is used especially when pouring from a narrow necked container

How Noisy

to gush

26 3.2

to glug

1 8.1

to gurgle

27 3.7

drip

22 1.0

to trickle

70 3.4

Surface Forms

Etymology