different between jargle vs gargle

English

Etymology

Compare Old Swedish jerga (“to repeat angrily, to brawl”), Icelandic jarg (“tedious iteration”), French jargonner (“to talk jargon”). See jargon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d????(?)??l/

Verb

jargle (third-person singular simple present jargles, present participle jargling, simple past and past participle jargled)

1. (obsolete) To emit a harsh or discordant sound.
   • c. 1600, Joseph Hall, Satires

     Thy mother could thee for thy cradle set / Her husband's rusty iron corselet; / Whose jargling sound might rock her babe to rest, / That never plain'd of his uneasy nest.

   • 1908, Jean Louis De Esque, Betelguese, a trip through hell

     Where syrt sucks jargling javels mad

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??????l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??l

Etymology 1

From Old French gargouiller (“to gargle”), from gargouille (“throat”). Compare gargoyle.

Verb

gargle (third-person singular simple present gargles, present participle gargling, simple past and past participle gargled)

1. (intransitive) to clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs
2. (intransitive) to make a sound like the one made while gargling
3. (transitive) to clean a specific part of the body by gargling (almost always throat or mouth)
4. (transitive) to use (a liquid) for purposes of cleaning one's mouth or throat by gargling.

   Every morning he gargled a little cheap Scotch.

Translations

Noun

gargle (plural gargles)

1. a liquid used for gargling
   • 1861, Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets:

     Take of borax 1 drm., tinc. of myrrh 1/2 oz., clarified honey 1 oz., rose or distilled water, 4 oz.; mix. To be used as a gargle or mouth wash in sore mouth or affection of the gums.

2. the sound of gargling
3. (slang) lager, drink

Synonyms

• mouthwash

Derived terms

• gargle-factory

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

gargle (plural gargles)

1. Obsolete form of gargoyle.

Anagrams

• gregal, lagger, raggle