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🦷 To rinse throat 🦷 A mouth rinse 🗣️ To speak unclearly 💧 A bubbling sound
gargle

gargle

1 4.9
A bubbling sound made when liquid moves in the mouth or throat
  • noun
  • /ˈɡɑrɡəl/
translation icon : gorgoteo
  • A faint gargle which let you know that he was still just about breathing.

A faint gargle which let you know that he was still just about breathing.

Examples

  • The doctor said he would need to make a strong gargle after the procedure to soothe his throat.

  • Yeah, we saw you in the commercial with the gargling... the mouthwash ad.

    Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)

  • A strange gargling noise echoed in his ears.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • We could hear a loud gargle from the bathroom as she rinsed her mouth with mouthwash.

  • After taking the medicine, he let out a small gargle that echoed through the room.

Synonyms

gurgle
vsgargle
10 3.5

A bubbling sound like water moving in a bottle

is the same bubbling quality but produced in the throat when rinsing with liquid
glug
vsgargle
10 6.6

A gurgling sound when liquid pours from a bottle

is the same bubbling sound but made inside the throat while rinsing

How Bubbling

gurgle
10 3.5
gargle
1 4.9
to bubble
22 2.0

Surface Forms

gargle singular
gargles plural

Etymology

Gargle can also mean the bubbling sound itself and is like the word gurgle, which copies a 'gurgling' throat, so a gargle is the wet, bubbling noise you hear.