gargle
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈɡɑɹɡəl/
gargle (gargles, present participle gargling; past and past participle gargled)
- (intransitive) to clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs
- (intransitive) to make a sound like the one made while gargling
- (transitive) to clean a specific part of the body by gargling (almost always throat or mouth)
- (transitive) to use (a liquid) for purposes of cleaning one's mouth or throat by gargling.
- Every morning he gargled a little cheap Scotch.
- French: gargariser
- German: gurgeln
- Portuguese: gargarejar
- Russian: полоска́ть
- Spanish: hacer gárgaras, gargarizar
- German: gurgeln
- Russian: издава́ть бу́лькающий звук
- French: gargariser, faire des gargarismes
gargle (plural gargles)
- a liquid used for gargling
- 1861, Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets:
- Take of borax 1 drm., tinc. of myrrh 1/2 oz., clarified honey 1 oz., rose or distilled water, 4 oz.; mix. To be used as a gargle or mouth wash in sore mouth or affection of the gums.
- 1861, Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets:
- the sound of gargling
- (slang) lager, drink
- French: gargarisme
- German: Gurgellösung, Gurgelwasser
- Russian: жи́дкость для полоскание
- Spanish: gárgara
gargle (plural gargles)
- Obsolete form of gargoyle#English|gargoyle.
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