Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gurk

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English

Syllables: gurk
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A river in Carinthia, Austria, a tributary of the River Drava.

name

A town in Sankt Veit an der Glan district, Carinthia, Austria.

verb

To burp or belch.

Colloquial

noun

An act of gurking; a burp or belch.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"He took a sip of Coke and gurked loudly."
"Graham gurked, and his gurk felt a bit full."
"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."
"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."

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

gurks (present, singular) gurking (participle, present) gurked (participle, past) gurked (past) gurks (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

gurks

Questions

What does gurk mean?: A river in Carinthia, Austria, a tributary of the River Drava.
Where does gurk come from?: Onomatopoeic.

How to pronounce gurk

Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “gurk”.
Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling () so you know which sounds to aim for.
Play the audio — Click Play to hear reference audio for “gurk”.
Repeat and practice — Say “gurk” aloud, matching stress and vowels until it feels natural.