- to wash or rinse the throat or mouth with a liquid held in the throat and kept in motion by a stream of air from the lungs.
- to gargle (the throat or mouth).
- to utter with a gargling sound.
- any liquid used for gargling.
- a gargling sound.
- to rinse (the mouth and throat) with a liquid, esp a medicinal fluid by slowly breathing out through the liquid
- to utter (words, sounds, etc) with the throaty bubbling noise of gargling
- the liquid used for gargling
- the sound produced by gargling
- an alcoholic drink
