Slurp

//slɜːp// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.
  2. 2
    A mouthful of liquid sucked up.

    "I took another slurp of my soup."

Verb
  1. 1
    To eat or drink noisily. transitive

    "They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti."

  2. 2
    eat noisily wordnet
  3. 3
    To make a loud sucking noise. intransitive

    "The mud slurped under our shoes."

Synonyms

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aspiratebeltbeveragebreathebreathe inbumper

Example

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"In the U.S. it is disrespectful to slurp while eating noodles, but in Japan it is considered polite and even flattering."

Etymology

From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from Old Dutch *slurpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slurp- (“to sip, slurp”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-, *srobʰ- (“to sip, slurp, gulp”). Cognate with West Frisian sloarpe, sloarpje, slurvje (“to slurp”), German schlürfen (“to sip, slurp”), Swedish slurpa (“to slurp”), Norwegian slurpe (“to slurp”). Compare also Saterland Frisian slubberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slurp”), Middle High German sluppern (“to slurp”), Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic slupra (“to slurp”), Middle High German sürfeln, sürpfeln (“to sip, slurp”), Latin sorbeō (“to suck up, imbibe, absorb”). Often treated as onomatopoeic in modern writing.

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