glug

plural glugs · alternative glook · alternative gluck

1. The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle.

   The blood did not come out of him in a glug but in a steady silent gush.

   2004, Tom Bissell, “Death Defier”, in God Lives in St. Petersburg: Short Stories, Knopf Doubleday, published 2007

2. informalThe amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard.

   Pour a glug of bleach into the toilet.

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   Slowly, Khoklov removed a silver flask from within his suit jacket. He had a long contemplative glug, then shuddered violently.

   1996, Bruce Sterling, “The Littlest Jackal”, in A Good Old-Fashioned Future, Bantam Spectra, published 1999, →ISBN

   She turned the taps to start the water running, poured in a generous glug of vanilla bubble bath, then moved into the bedroom, to the desk in the corner where her laptop sat open.

   2015, Cindy Myers, Above It All, Kensington, →ISBN

present singular third person glugs · participle present glugging · participle past glugged · past glugged · alternative glook · alternative gluck

1. intransitiveTo flow in noisy bursts.

   The water glugged down the sink.

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   We’d squat by the creek waiting for the bottle to glug full through its narrow neck and then together we would walk to the church and throw the water on the fire a quart at a time, not so much in hope of putting it out as to be able to say, if asked, that we tried.

   1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, New York: Grove Press, page 200

   Spasmodically, Bill clutched the handle of the pump, until the attendant hit the flashing button on his console and the petrol began to glug.

   1998, Will Self, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 135

2. informaltransitiveTo quickly swallow liquid.

   He had glugged that glass of wine before she got a chance to introduce herself.

   1 more example

   There is no sugary "welcome" drink to glug. Rather, Honey, an elderly, overweight Lab mix, waddles and wags my way.

   1992 June 21, Barbara Holl, Cathy Hainer, Bill Heavey, Walter Nicholls, Christina del Sesto, “Summer Places”, in The Washington Post

3. transitiveTo pour noisily.

   The bottle cap rasped as she unscrewed it and glugged some Bailey's into her mug, the spoon tinkling as she stirred.

   2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 281

alternative glook · alternative gluck

1. The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured out of a jug, bottle, etc., or swallowed by a person.