Noun: gurges
| Singular | gurges |
| Plural | gurges; gurgeses |
Sample Sentences
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It was early—only ten p.m.—but already gurgeses of light and gales of sound frothed in unison to a familiar relentless heartbeat. [(Can we date this quote?), Wilyem Clark, Edgewise, Wilyem Clark, page 72:]
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Argent, a gurges azure, is borne by GORGES, of Langford, Wilts., created a Baronet 1612. As the gurges (like the fountain) represents water, argent and azure are its proper tinctures. [1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 153:]
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A shield of arms of early shape : three gurgeses (or roundles charged with a central pellet and two annulets concentric), two and one. [1894, British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, page 294:]
Nouns inflected like gurges
saltus,
beta fish,
paleofish,
airbreathing catfish,
black rhinoceros,
torrentfish,
megahertz,
pan fish,
solar plexus,
peltops,
yellow perch,
numb-nuts,
springfish,
pilot fish,
FPS,
janitor fish,
seafish,
parados,
Mediterranean parrotfish,
cockfish, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English gurges, from Latin gurges. Doublet of gorge and gour. See: Latin Nouns '
gurges'.