gluck

See also: Gluck, glück, and Glück

English

WOTD – 10 December 2011

Etymology

Imitative; compare glug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlʌk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌk

Verb

gluck (third-person singular simple present glucks, present participle glucking, simple past and past participle glucked)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To flow or cause to flow in a noisy series of spurts, as when liquid is emptied through the narrow neck of a bottle.
   • 1900, J. H. Crawford, The autobiography of a tramp:

     But so long as the water kept flopping and glucking aside me, I was right.

   • 1904, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind:

     The little phial glucked out its precious contents.

   • 1990, E. P. Mathers, Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, page 235:

     Know, O Commander of the Faithful, that the eldest of my brothers, he who became lame, is called Bakbuk because when he tattles he makes a glucking noise like water coming out of a jar.

   • 2008, Neil Munro, John Splendid, page 183:

     The river, hurrying through grassy levels, glucked and clattered and plopped most gaily […]

Translations

to flow or cause to flow in noisy spurts

• Finnish: pulputa (fi) (intransitive); pulputtaa (fi) (transitive)
• Ukrainian: (intransitive) бу́лькати (uk) (búlʹkaty)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlʊk/

• Audio:

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Interjection

gluck

1. glug (onomatopoeia for pouring or swallowing a liquid)