glug

Liquid pouring noise

Glug is the sound of liquid pouring from a bottle or container in intermittent bursts: The wine glugged into the glass.

As a noun, it's both the sound itself and an informal measure—a splash or pour of liquid: Add a glug of olive oil.

The word imitates what it describes.

sound

gurgle

Bubbling liquid sound

burble · plop · splash · chug · bubble · pour · drip · trickle · babble · gargle

drinking

swig

Large hasty draught

swallow · drain · down · imbibe · slug · tipple · sip · draft · nip · belt

liquid

wine

Fermented grape beverage

  • waterClear essential liquid
  • juiceExtracted fruit liquid
  • milkMammalian nursing fluid

oil · potion · elixir · syrup · broth · whiskey · rum · beer · soda · medicine

viscosity

thick

Having great depth

  • syrupyExcessively sweet or sentimental
  • viscousThick and slow-flowing
  • oozeSeep gradually out

treacle · molasses · honey · heavy · dense · sluggish · globby · goopy · gloopy · mucilaginous

Categories
Opposites
drinking volume/manner

glugsip

Small mouthful of liquid

nibble · taste · nurse · savor · sample

liquid flow sound/manner

glugtrickle

Thin, slow stream

drip · dribble · seep · drizzle · drop

Family

glugs, glugged, glugging

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G