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noun
A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty in breathing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England
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verb
To gurgle; to rattle when breathing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, intransitive
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History
From Middle English rotelen, ratelen (“to make a rattling sound while breathing, flap”), from Middle Dutch rotelen (“to rattle, wheeze, drone”) or Middle Low German rōtelen, rātelen, rūtelen (“to groan, gasp, rattle”), from Old Saxon hrot, hrod (“snot, mucus”), from Proto-West Germanic *hroþ (“saliva, mucus, snot”), probably ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate with Dutch reutelen (“to rattle”), German Rotz (“snot”).
