GOKKU-RI ごっくり
Meanings
・The sound made by the throat when swallowing a liquid or spit in one gulp. Also, its appearance.
Examples
・My daughter did her best to gulp down the bitter medicine.
Dogmatic Opinion
Throat moving only once.
There is an awareness of sound and a somewhat sharpened tension.
When something might be about to happen, I get nervous and spit once.
Swallowing hard to swallow (pills, hard to say words). = “Gokkuri”
Proximate Expression
swig
gulp
