In the U.S. it is disrespectful to slurp while eating noodles, but in Japan it is considered polite and even flattering.
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Slurp
//slɜːp//
Synonyms for "slurp" (57 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (28)
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Translations
40 translations across 26 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ῥοφέω verb (eat or drink noisily)
Bulgarian
2 entries- сърбане noun (a loud sucking noise)
- сърбам verb (eat or drink noisily)
Czech
1 entries- srkat verb (eat or drink noisily)
Danish
1 entries- slubre verb (eat or drink noisily)
Dutch
3 entries- slurp noun (a loud sucking noise)
- slorpen verb (eat or drink noisily)
- slurpen verb (eat or drink noisily)
Faroese
3 entries- slufsa verb (eat or drink noisily)
- slurka verb (eat or drink noisily)
- slurpa verb (eat or drink noisily)
Finnish
2 entries- hörps noun (a loud sucking noise)
- ryystää verb (eat or drink noisily)
Galician
2 entries- larpar verb (eat or drink noisily)
- sorber verb (eat or drink noisily)
German
1 entries- schlürfen verb (eat or drink noisily)
Hindi
2 entries- सुड़कना verb (eat or drink noisily)
- सुड़पना verb (eat or drink noisily)
Hungarian
3 entries- szortyog verb (make a loud sucking noise)
- szörcsög verb (make a loud sucking noise)
- szürcsöl verb (eat or drink noisily)
Icelandic
1 entries- sötra verb (eat or drink noisily)
Ingrian
1 entries- särpää verb (eat or drink noisily)
Italian
1 entries- tracannare verb (eat or drink noisily)
Kapampangan
1 entries- ilupan verb (eat or drink noisily)
Macedonian
1 entries- срка verb (eat or drink noisily)
Māori
1 entries- pākorakora noun (a loud sucking noise)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- slurpe verb (eat or drink noisily)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- slurpa verb (eat or drink noisily)
Polish
1 entries- siorbać verb (eat or drink noisily)
Portuguese
1 entries- sorver verb (eat or drink noisily)
Quechua
1 entries- upiy verb (eat or drink noisily)
Russian
3 entries- сёрбать verb (eat or drink noisily)
- хлеба́ть verb (eat or drink noisily)
- хлю́пать verb (eat or drink noisily)
Slovak
2 entries- chlípať verb (eat or drink noisily)
- sŕkať verb (eat or drink noisily)
Spanish
1 entries- sorber verb (eat or drink noisily)
Swedish
2 entries- slurpa verb (eat or drink noisily)
- sörpla verb (eat or drink noisily)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Don't slurp.
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Don't slurp your soup.
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Don't slurp when you eat soup.
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