gurgitate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To surge (rise) and fall ebulliently, like or as water.
verb
To eat, especially to eat competitively (see competitive eating).
Example Sentences
- "From the gorge a faint steam rose like mist, and in the utter stillness I could hear, far down, the sound of gurgitating waters. In a little while - how long I could not tell - the moment of eruption would return and flood the chasm."
- "In both a cherub smiles at gurgitating, lion-headed fountains, their basins bright with chattering water, repetitious questions; one region consonantal, obdurate, the other vowelled. I pay both allegiance and gratitude, for lights net[…]"
- "... it input in certain prescribed forms for the desired output; it gurgitates for a while; then it drops out the sought-for representation; plonk, on the tray, fully formed, as Athena from the brain of Zeus' (Cartwright 1999: 247)."
- "His attitude to statistics can best be indicated by an expression that seems not to have been used in any of the classics, but which involves the idea that he masticates, and gurgitates them before life is extinct."
- "It's a head-nodder with Badlands' lyrical formula for gurgitating greatness laid over a loop from Thomas Dolby's eighties rock hit "She Blinded Me with Science." No bunson burners, or beakers [...] Just a competitive eater in sneakers[…]"
- "[...] the stinkiest cheese, and the hungry "athlete" who excels at gurgitating plenty without regurgitating any[.]"
Etymology
From Latin gurgitātus, past participle of gurgitō. The second sense is partly a back-formation from regurgitate.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: gurgitātus