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Gargle   Listen
verb
Gargle  v. t.  (past & past part. garggled, pres. part. gargling)  
1.
To wash or rinse, as the mouth or throat, particular the latter, agitating the liquid (water or a medicinal preparation) by an expulsion of air from the lungs.
2.
To warble; to sing as if gargling (Obs.)





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"Gargle" Quotes from Famous Books



... you a-drivin' at, mister?" he growled at last, after trying vainly to expectorate and compromising the effort in a husky gargle. ...
— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy
... McCabe!" says she, in that gushy, up and down tone, like she was usin' language as some sort of throat gargle. "How perfectly dear of you to ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... the original notes Of the chorus as sung by your Majesty's choir With a few pints of lava to gargle the throats Of myself and some others who sing it ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... Kittridge to her pastor, as they were seated at the tea-table, "told me that she wished when you were going home that you would call in to see Mary Jane; she couldn't come out to the funeral on account of a dreffle sore throat. I was tellin' on her to gargle it with blackberry-root tea—don't you think that is a good ...
— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... type of typhoid. Although we had been inoculated, we were obliged to gargle several times during the day, and even then we always had more or less of ...
— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp
... oakum taste in my mouth?" sputtered young Holmes. "Bosh! I'd sooner have a good gargle than be ...
— The Grammar School Boys of Gridley - or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving • H. Irving Hancock
... impossibility! Richardson would have given his "Clarissa," and Rousseau his "Heloise" to have imagined it. A fresh source of the pathetic bursts out before us, and not a bitter one. If your Germans can show us anything comparable to what I have transcribed, I would almost undergo a year's gargle of their language for it. The ...
— Books for Children - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 3 • Charles and Mary Lamb


Words linked to "Gargle" :   let loose, wash, let out, utter, sound, lave


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