verb, noun
verb [V] ~ (with sth) to wash inside your mouth and throat by moving a liquid around at the back of your throat and then SPITTING it out:
Gargle with salt water if your throat is sore.
Part of speech: noun
1 [C,U] a liquid used for gargling:
an antiseptic gargle
2 [sing.] an act of gargling or a sound like that made when gargling:
to have a gargle with salt water * a bellowing gargle of pain
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for gargle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is gargle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, gargle is tagged as noun.
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