gargling

Verb

gargle (third-person singular simple present gargles, present participle gargling, simple past and past participle gargled)

1. (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.
   • She hated the poisoned feeling in her throat, and no matter how often she gargled she felt unclean and disgusting.1915 October, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter V, in The Song of the Lark, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, part III (Stupid Faces), page 285
2. (intransitive) To make a sound like the one made while gargling.
3. (transitive) To clean a specific part of the body by gargling (almost always throat or mouth).
   • They don't gargle their throats with anything stronger than coffee at this tavern.1893, Gilbert Parker, Mrs. Falchion
4. (transitive) To use (a liquid) for purposes of cleaning one's mouth or throat by gargling.
   • Every morning he gargled a little cheap Scotch.
5. (slang, transitive) To perform oral sex on (a person or genitals).
   • I'd like to gargle his marbles.2004 December 1, “Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset”, in South Park, season 8, episode 12

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