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Gargle

verb
(past & past part. garggled, pres. part. gargling)
1.
Utter with gargling or burbling sounds.
2.
Rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash.  Synonym: rinse.
noun
1.
A medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth.  Synonym: mouthwash.
2.
The sound produced while gargling.





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"Gargle" Quotes from Famous Books



... caused by neglected teeth, indicates a deranged state of the system. When it is occasioned by the teeth or other local case, use a gargle consisting of a spoonful of solution of chloride of lime in half a tumbler of water. Gentlemen smoking, and thus tainting the breath, may be glad to know that the common parsley has a peculiar effect in removing ...
— Our Deportment - Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society • John H. Young
... Breath.—When bad breath is occasioned by teeth, or any local cause, use a gargle consisting of a spoonful of solution of chloride of lime in half a ...
— The Ladies Book of Useful Information - Compiled from many sources • Anonymous
... said the detective, "that it involves names which you would scarcely dare to breathe, at least without first using some kind of atomiser or throat-gargle." ...
— Nonsense Novels • Stephen Leacock
... disregarding its insatiable appetite for the improper, is a natural hero worshiper. It loves, not the beautiful, but the strange, the unprecedented, the astounding; it suffers from an incurable heliogabalisme. A soprano who can gargle her way up to G sharp in altissimo interests it almost as much as a contralto who has slept publicly with a grand duke. If it cannot get the tenor who receives $3,000 a night, it will take the tenor who fought ...
— Damn! - A Book of Calumny • Henry Louis Mencken
... and muffled in shawls. Her tiny feet were wrapped in a woollen bundle, and rested on hot bricks, and her aching head was tied up in red flannel bandages that smelled of brandy; she had a mustard plaster on her chest, a cayenne pepper 'gargle' for her throat, and a cup of hot ginger tea stood at her elbow; her pretty nose was swollen out of shape, her bright eyes were red and inflamed, and little blisters had broken out all over those kissable ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various


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