gluck

present singular third person glucks · participle present glucking · participle past glucked · past glucked

1. ambitransitiveTo flow or cause to flow in a noisy series of spurts, as when liquid is emptied through the narrow neck of a bottle.

   The little phial glucked out its precious contents.

   1904, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind

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   But so long as the water kept flopping and glucking aside me, I was right.

   1900, J. H. Crawford, The autobiography of a tramp

   Know, O Commander of the Faithful, that the eldest of my brothers, he who became lame, is called Bakbuk because when he tattles he makes a glucking noise like water coming out of a jar.

   1990, E. P. Mathers, Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, page 235

   The river, hurrying through grassy levels, glucked and clattered and plopped most gaily[…]

   2008, Neil Munro, John Splendid, page 183

plural glucks

1. A glug; a noisy flowing.

1. A surname.