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gluck

/ɡlʌk/

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

Verb

gluck (third-person singular simple present glucks, present participle glucking, simple past and past participle glucked)

  1. (ambitransitive) To flow or cause to flow in a noisy series of spurts, as when liquid is emptied through the narrow neck of a bottle.
    • But so long as the water kept flopping and glucking aside me, I was right.1900, J. H. Crawford, The autobiography of a tramp
    • The little phial glucked out its precious contents.1904, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind

Proper noun capitalized: Gluck

Gluck

  1. A surname.

gluck meaning in Bengali

gluck in Bengali

কর্কশ শব্দে প্রবাহিত হওয়া, করানো

Examples of gluck in a sentence

  • 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:

Forms of gluck

third-person singular presentglucks
present participleglucking
past participleglucked
pastglucked

Origin of gluck

Imitative; compare glug.

From the German surname Glück and Jewish surname (Yiddish גליק (glik)), both nouns meaning "luck." Compare Glick, Glueck.

Words that rhyme with gluck

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Questions about gluck

What does gluck mean?
Gluck means to flow or cause to flow in a noisy series of spurts, as when liquid is emptied through the narrow neck of a bottle.
What is gluck in Bengali?
Gluck in Bengali is কর্কশ শব্দে প্রবাহিত হওয়া, করানো. See Gluck meaning in Bengali.
How do you use gluck in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is gluck?
Gluck can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gluck?
Gluck is pronounced /ɡlʌk/.
What is the past tense of gluck?
The past tense of gluck is glucked.

Words near gluck in the dictionary

  1. glucine
  2. glucinic
  3. glucinium
  4. glucinum
  5. glucitol
  6. gluck
  7. glucked
  8. Gluckian
  9. glucking
  10. glucks
  11. Gluckstein

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gluck (page history and authors); Gluck (page history and authors); gluck (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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