gurk

present singular third person gurks · participle present gurking · participle past gurked · past gurked

1. colloquialrareTo burp or belch.

   He took a sip of Coke and gurked loudly.

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   Graham gurked, and his gurk felt a bit full.

   1971, Nicholas Armfelt, Catching Up, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 12

   He is sipping the fizzy cold cola and has to bite down on the cup lip to keep from gurking. Sinks his buck teeth into the Styrofoam leaving horseshoe impressions he can see with the tip of his tongue.

   2010, Janice Daugharty, The Little Known, Memphis, T.N.: Belle Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 10

plural gurks

1. colloquialrareAn act of gurking; a burp or belch.

   I let out a loud gurk and everybody looked at me.

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   I bore him because I study his every gesture, sigh, gurk or twitch, determined with dread to find him in bad health, which must be most horribly irritating, and he bores me because he is so spoilt that a kind word flung into the silences he thinks will suffice to interest me.

   1948 September 11, Diana Cooper, edited by John Julius Norwich, Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Her Son John Julius Norwich 1939–1952, London: Chatto & Windus, published 2013, →ISBN, page 301

1. A river in Carinthia, Austria, a tributary of the River Drava.
2. A town in Sankt Veit an der Glan district, Carinthia, Austria.