gack
suomi-englanti sanakirjagack englanniksi
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(quote-book) GACK...guck-gack....GACK! GACK!...GACK!
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(quote-web) The family asked me to try it saying that it "tastes better than it smells." They were completely wrong. Gack! No more marmite for this boy.|title=Arriving in New Zealand: My First Experiences in This Far Off Land|year=a. 2004|author=Mister Moose pseudonym|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040410022318/http://www.mistermoose.org/nz/arriving.html|archivedate=2004-04-10|accessdate=2022-09-10
(quote-book)”|year=1995|month=March|author=Mary Daheim|page=112|isbn=0380774917|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/majorvicesbedand00mary/page/112|publisher=Avon Books|url=https://archive.org/details/majorvicesbedand00mary
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To make a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat, such as before vomiting or while coughing, gagging, etc.
(quote-book) He rubbed his throat, gacked like a cat spitting up a hair ball.|year=1999|author=Dennis Lehane|page=31|isbn=068815333X|publisher=William Morrow and Company|location=New York|edition=1st
To do something that causes a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat.
(quote-book) he almost choked to death before we figured out how to do the Heimlich maneuver on him. (..) finally Pete Honer said, "He's turning blue," and we all just grabbed something and squeezed and he gacked it up and out. Pickles and all.|year=2006|author=Gary Paulsen|page=12|isbn=9780385746601|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/amazinglifeofbir00gary/page/12|publisher=Wendy Lam Books|edition=1st|url=https://archive.org/details/amazinglifeofbir00gary
To choke (gloss)
(quote-book) Chutsky came around and kicked the other one in the throat, so hard I could hear it crack, and he went over backward making gacking noises and clutching at his windpipe.u|year=2010|author=Jeff Lindsay|page=340|isbn=9781409113461|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/dexterisdeliciou0000lind/page/340|publisher=Orion Books|url=https://archive.org/details/dexterisdeliciou0000lind
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(quote-book)|year=2009|month=March|author=Christopher John Campion|page=195|isbn=9781592404261|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/escapefrombellev00camp_0/page/195|publisher=Gotham Books|url=https://archive.org/details/escapefrombellev00camp_0
(quote-book) Robbie held up a kilo for me to hold, but there was no way I was going to touch one single package. The last thing I wanted were my fingerprints on that gack (..)|year=2017|author=Roman Caribe pseudonym; Robert Cea|isbn=9780316315388|chapter=Bait and Switch|publisher=Hachette Books
(quote-book) Steve shot ptargmigan for it, and every time it ate or saw Steve it would scream, ''Gack gack gack gack'', (..)|year=2009|author=Rachel Dickinson|page=97&endash;98|isbn=9780618806232|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/falconeronedgema0000dick/page/97|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|url=https://archive.org/details/falconeronedgema0000dick
(quote-book) The bird is described as a smaller version or relative of the ‘seagull’, a colonial cliff-nesting species that when disturbed forms swirling masses of birds overhead which call ‘gack, gack, gack, gack’.|year=2010|author=Eugene S. Hunn; Thomas F. Thornton|page=195—196|isbn=9781844077830|editor=Sonia Tidemann; Andrew Gosler|chapter=Tlingit Birds: An Annotated List with a Statistical Comparative Analysis|publisher=Earthscan
To call in response to disturbance.
(quote-book) On other occasions the adults swim or walk about, incessantly gacking.|year=1977|author=Jon Fjeldså|page=59|isbn=9788787581127
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