glop

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɒp/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

Variation of glope.

Verb

glop (third-person singular simple present glops, present participle glopping, simple past and past participle glopped)

1. (dialectal or archaic) To stare in amazement.

Etymology 2

1940-45, of expressive origin. Compare goop, gulp.

Noun

glop (countable and uncountable, plural glops)

1. (informal, uncountable) Any gooey substance.
   • 2012, Kathryn Lasky, Chasing Orion, page 308:

     He inserted the needle, and in about thirty seconds the most disgusting greenish glop started to drop into the bowl.

2. (informal, countable) A gooey blob of some substance.
   • 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     Got out a jack knife & scraped glops of wax off the floor.

   • 2015, Kristen L. Middleton, W. J. May, Suzy Turner, Darlings of Darkness:

     Kylarai studied me as I picked a glop of mascara from one lash.

Derived terms

• gloppy

Translations

Translations

• Polish: paćka f

Verb

glop (third-person singular simple present glops, present participle glopping, simple past and past participle glopped)

1. (transitive, informal) To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.
   • 2012, Courtney Milan, The Duchess War:

     He unscrewed the top from the pot, dipped the stick in, and clumsily glopped the white mess onto the handbill Minnie was holding. “You are an untidy paster.”

2. (transitive, archaic) To swallow greedily.

Catalan

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈɡlop]

Noun

glop m (plural glops)

1. gulp, sip

   un glop de cafè ― a sip of coffee

Derived terms

• glopejar
• glopet

Further reading

• “glop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

Related to West Frisian gloppe (“alley”), Old Norse gloppa (“mountain gorge”), Norwegian glop (“opening, hole”), Icelandic glopa, Faroese gloppa (“ajar”); per Kroonen, all from Proto-Germanic *gluppa (“open space”), a derivative of *gluppōn (“yawning, being open”), from Pre-Germanic *glub-n-, *glub-, from which also gleuf (“slit, opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣlɔp/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: glop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

glop n (plural gloppen, diminutive glopje n)

1. (Northern, dialectal) opening, hole, crevice
2. (Holland, dialectal) alley, narrow passage, narrow street
3. (Northern, dialectal) open space, clearing

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “gluppa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 181-82

Further reading

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “glop”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute