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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See gorge.
Verb
gurge (third-person singular simple present gurges, present participle gurging, simple past and past participle gurged)
- (obsolete) To swallow up.
Etymology 2
From Latin gurges, taken to be a plural.
Noun
gurge (plural gurges)
- (obsolete outside heraldry) Synonym of gurges (“whirlpool”).
1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 12, lines 41-42:The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge
Boils out from under ground
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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gurges.
Pronunciation
Noun
gurge f (plural gurgi)
- (poetic) whirlpool, vortex
- Synonyms: gorgo, (poetic) gurgite
Further reading
- gurge in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana