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Meaning of gluck | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
/ɡlʌk/

Definitions

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

ambitransitive

Examples

“But so long as the water kept flopping and glucking aside me, I was right.”
“The little phial glucked out its precious contents.”
“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.”
“The river, hurrying through grassy levels, glucked and clattered and plopped most gaily[…]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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