Gurgled vs Burgled - What's the difference?
gurgled | burgled |
(gurgle)
To flow with a bubbling sound.
* Young
To make such a sound.
A gurgling sound.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(burgle)
(chiefly, British, NZ) to commit burglary.
:* {{quote-book
, year=1892
, year_published=2011
, edition=HTML
, editor=
, author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, title=The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
, chapter=The Beryl Coronet
(UK, sports) To take the ball legally from an opposing player.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 18
, author=Ben Dirs
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia
, work=BBC Sport
As verbs the difference between gurgled and burgled
is that gurgled is (gurgle) while burgled is (burgle).gurgled
English
Verb
(head)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 ----burgled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*burgle
English
Verb
(burgl)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Well, I hope to goodness the house won’t be burgled during the night. }}
citation, page= , passage=And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.}}