Gurgle vs Complain - What's the difference?
gurgle | complain | Related terms |
To flow with a bubbling sound.
* Young
To make such a sound.
A gurgling sound.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
* Milton
To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
* Shakespeare
To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
As verbs the difference between gurgle and complain
is that gurgle is to flow with a bubbling sound while complain is to express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.As a noun gurgle
is a gurgling sound.gurgle
English
Verb
- The bath water gurgled down the drain.
- Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
- The baby gurgled with delight.
Noun
(en noun)- 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 ----complain
English
Verb
(en verb)- Joe was always complaining about the noise made by his neighbours.
- O loss of sight, of thee I most complain !
- They've complained about me to the police again.
- Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?
- the complaining bed-springs
