I urged/It's making me urge

[TheDustyZebra]

I haven't heard "gurge" either. I have, unfortunately, heard the "used interchangeably with" phrase ENTIRELY too much and I wish it would vanish from the face of the planet.

 

[Phyrebrat]

Mouse, are you sure you don't mean...

Okay, so I have to say that I heard this from Bournemouthians and have on occasion had people look at me with antici--------pation when I haven't qualified what 'urge' I was urging.. (at which point I have to make sounds to clarify ).

So you're not a div, Mouse. And I bet now you've aired this into cyberspace you'll be seeing your definition in OED, soon.

Which is nice.

pH

 

[Mouse]

YAY! I knew it was a thing.

 

[BelgarionOz]

Sounds more like a colloquialism, that may or may not be appropriate to your characters. Retching and such is more common as others have stated.

 

[Josh Martin]

I moved to North Devon a few years ago and my girlfriend's Mum is a purebred North Devon girl. She says "urge" a lot, meaning to retch or gag, on the verge of being sick.

I just had to look it up. By the sounds of it this is very much a West Country dialect for sure, but I would guess it must come from the 'urge to purge'.

So yes, would make sense. Local dialect .

 

[Brian G Turner]

So yes, would make sense.

And welcome to the chrons forums @Josh Martin !

 

[Ronald T.]

I always heard it as "gurge" or "gurged". As in " He felt his gurge rise", or "He fought to settled his stomach as it gurged with raging protest".

But what do I know? I'm just a kid.

 

[Danny McG]

Hughie, Bert and Ralf

 

[The Judge]

I always heard it as "gurge" or "gurged". As in " He felt his gurge rise", or "He fought to settled his stomach as it gurged with raging protest".

I've never come across your second use of it, but surely the first is properly "He felt his gorge rise." Gorge is an old word for the throat or gullet, and from there also came to mean what had been swallowed, so in figurative use for eg disgust the gorge rising is the food coming up again, ie a feeling of nausea.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I'm from California, but I've never heard the word "gurge."

Of course the way things usually work, having said that I will probably stumble across it two or three times by the end of the month. Maybe the end of the week.