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Gargle
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(gargles, gargling, gargled) If you gargle, you wash your mouth and throat by filling your mouth with a liquid, tipping your head back and using your throat to blow bubbles through the liquid, and finally spitting it out. Try gargling with salt water as soon as a cough begins... At the sink, Neil noisily gargled something medicinal. VERB: V, V n
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I. verb (~d; gargling) Etymology: Middle French gargouiller, of imitative origin Date: 1527 transitive verb 1. a. to hold (a liquid) in the mouth or throat and agitate with air from the lungs b. to cleanse or disinfect (the oral cavity) in this manner 2. to utter with a gargling sound intransitive verb 1. to use a ~ 2. to speak or sing as if gargling II. noun Date: 1629 1. a liquid used in gargling 2. a sound of or like that of gargling ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 tr. (also absol.) wash (one's mouth and throat), esp. for medicinal purposes, with a liquid kept in motion by breathing through it. 2 intr. make a sound as when doing this. --n. 1 a liquid used for gargling. 2 sl. an alcoholic drink. Etymology: F gargouiller f. gargouille: see GARGOYLE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. полоскание (для горла) 2. ам. сл. выпивка; глоток (особ. пива) 3. полоскать (горло) 4. ам. сл. хлебнуть (спиртного), промочить горло 5. издавать булькающий звук ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~1 v I + with to clean the inside of your mouth and throat by blowing air through water or medicine in the back of your throat (Gargling with salt water may help your sore throat.) ~2 n 1 liquid that you gargle with 2 the act of gargling ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1527, from M.Fr. gargouiller "to gurgle, bubble," from O.Fr. gargouille "throat, waterspout," perhaps from garg-, imitative of throat sounds, + *goule dial. for "mouth," from L. gula "throat." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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