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Clink vs Gurgle - What's the difference?

clink | gurgle |

As nouns the difference between clink and gurgle

is that clink is (onomatopoeia) the sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass or clink can be (slang) jail or prison, after (w) prison in southwark, london used in the phrase (in the clink) while gurgle is a gurgling sound.

As verbs the difference between clink and gurgle

is that clink is to make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another while gurgle is to flow with a bubbling sound.

clink

English

Etymology 1

Onomatpoeic, as metal against metal. Related to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m). Maybe from (etyl) , related to call. English onomatopoeias

Noun

(en noun)
  • (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
    • You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
    • When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
    • The hammers clinked on the stone all night.
  • * Tennyson
    • the clinking latch
  • (humorous, dated) To rhyme.

    • Etymology 2

    From prison in Southwark, London, itself presumably named after sound of doors being bolted or chains rattling.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) Jail or prison, after (w) prison in Southwark, London. Used in the phrase (in the clink).
    • If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink .
  • Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * in the clink

    gurgle

    English

    Verb

  • To flow with a bubbling sound.
    • The bath water gurgled down the drain.
  • * Young
    • Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
  • To make such a sound.
    • The baby gurgled with delight.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gurgling sound.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

    Anagrams

    * * English onomatopoeias ----