Definitions for gargoyle

gargoyle gar·goyle

Spelling: [gahr-goil]
IPA: /ˈgɑr gɔɪl/

Gargoyle is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 238 anagrams from letters in gargoyle (aegglory).

Definitions for gargoyle

noun

  1. a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
  2. a spout, terminating in a grotesque representation of a human or animal figure with open mouth, projecting from the gutter of a building for throwing rain water clear of a building.

Origin of gargoyle

1250-1300; Middle English gargoile Old French gargouille, gargoule literally, throat; see gargle

Examples for gargoyle

I only saw and smelled the flowers; gargoyle looked as if he felt them!

Yet, if ever the moment had come to question him who had once been "gargoyle," that moment was come now!

Plunger was one of the earliest to obtain a copy of the gargoyle Record.

He is too much the gargoyle himself for the delights of dizziness.

With his right eye closed, Alvarado was looking like a gargoyle and there was nothing left in his offensive tank.

"It shall be as thou askest, gargoyle with the eyebrows," said Mellor.

It is like Socrates, that head; and like a gargoyle on the tower of Notre Dame.

Now the conversion of a "gargoyle" into a "Beetle" was not an easy process.

What could Wyndham want with a little quiet talk with a gargoyle?

John dear, it was that scalloped fire which gargoyle was staring at.

Word Value for gargoyle
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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