gagging

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gag

plural gaggings

1. A gag motion or reflex.

   She was restarted on L-DOPA later, in the middle of July, and this time the tongue-pulsions and gaggings were not evoked at all, but, on the contrary, a striking improvement occurred.

   1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

comparative more gagging · superlative most gagging

1. That causes one to gag.

   Then the old scourge of dusk swooped down upon the warderless hoard. It is he who burns up the sky at night in long trails of yellow flame, who flies above houses in a whirlwind of shrieking wings and gagging smoke.

   1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40