gurk
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English
Etymology
Verb
gurk (third-person singular simple present gurks, present participle gurking, simple past and past participle gurked)
- (colloquial, rare) To burp or belch.
- He took a sip of Coke and gurked loudly.
- 1971, Nicholas Armfelt, Catching Up, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 12:
- Graham gurked, and his gurk felt a bit full.
Noun
gurk (plural gurks)
- (colloquial, rare) An act of gurking; a burp or belch.
- I let out a loud gurk and everybody looked at me.
- 1948 September 11, Diana Cooper, edited by John Julius Norwich, Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich 1939–1952, London: Chatto & Windus, published 2013, →ISBN, page 301:
- I bore him because I study his every gesture, sigh, gurk or twitch, determined with dread to find him in bad health, which must be most horribly irritating, and he bores me because he is so spoilt that a kind word flung into the silences he thinks will suffice to interest me.
See also
References
- ^ “gurk v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- ^ “gurk, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
