gargled adj.
drunk; thus sob-gargled, maudlin drunk.
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | After the Wake (1981) 49: We were in a singing house on the Northside and got very sob-gargled between drinking whiskey and thinking of the operation. | |
| (con. 1920s) Emerald Square 47: Her oul’ fella came in shortly afterwards. Half gargled. | |
| The Joy (2015) [ebook] I knew he was gargled. He couldn’t walk straight. |