gurk
gurk verb: to burp or belch.
Verb
gurk (third-person singular simple present gurks, present participle gurking, simple past and past participle gurked)
Noun
gurk (plural gurks)
- An act of gurking; a burp or belch.
- I let out a loud gurk and everybody looked at me.
- 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...
Proper noun capitalized: Gurk
Gurk
Forms of gurk
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | gurks |
| present participle | gurking |
| past participle | gurked |
| past | gurked |
| Noun | |
| plural | gurks |
Origin of gurk
Onomatopoeic.
Questions about gurk
- What does gurk mean?
- Gurk means to burp or belch.
- What part of speech is gurk?
- Gurk can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the past tense of gurk?
- The past tense of gurk is gurked.
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