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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To wash or rinse, as the mouth, with any medicated liquor.-
  2. To apply or use as a gargle.
  3. Also spelled gargarise.

Wiktionary

  1. v. obsolete To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat.

Etymologies

  1. Latin? gargarizare, from Ancient Greek. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “The cross-eyed fellow was already on the platform; he began to tune the guitar, and six women sat down around him in a row, beginning to clap hands in time to the music; Tarugo rose from her seat and started a side dance, and was soon wiggling her hips convulsively; the singer commenced to gargarize softly; at intervals he would be silent and then nothing would be heard save the snapping of Tarugo's fingers and the clatter of her heels, which played the counterpoint.”

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