The word 'gargle' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of rinsing one's mouth with a medicated solution or antiseptic. For example: "I have a sore throat, so I gargled with salt water to ease the discomfort."
As her obstetrician, Hiroshi Nishida, puts it, the precautions she may need to take may be no more than reminding her children to wash their hands and gargle after they've been outside.
Patients gargle a special liquid and then spit into a cartridge containing test strips.
The most popular late-night television sitcom in Britain has recently been "Men Behaving Badly", a series about two flatmates who play air guitar, gargle lager and shoot five-minute videos telling their girlfriends that they want to dump them but cannot work up the courage to say so in person.Viz, a satirical comic of Swiftian scatological venom, sums up the trend succinctly.
This means that each break has to come during a lull in the action, when Bauer is driving somewhere, reloading his weapons or, one hopes, managing to fit in a quick floss and a gargle of mouthwash.
A papyrus roll just dropped off by messenger promises that another five thousand slaves will be on hand within days to complete the roof of the Greek-wrestling arena by the time events therein are scheduled to begin, or the supervisor vows to gargle with hemlock.
He has about four minutes (until the next bell rings) to put up his futon, open a window, run to the toilet, gargle with salt water, wash his face, put on his robes, and run to the meditation hall.
His howling was a liquid gargle that mesmerized us until my grandmother opened the bedroom door and shouted at me to run out and throw a bucket of water on the damn dog.
But right before he laughed he always made the cutest gargle-choke, which appeased both my anger and my pragmatic fear for our survival.
Even so, there were times during the first Global Chemical Industry Sustainability summit in Brussels where I could have used a gallon jar of Adams' other great concoction, the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, a cocktail to end all cocktails.
I also quite like the sound of the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster in Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, described as "like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick".
She agrees with Adams that the best way of dealing with the spectre of absurdity is "to find some way of ignoring it", a pleasingly simple solution that may involve drinking a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
