slurp
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from Old Dutch *slurpen, from Proto-Germanic *slarpanan (“to sip, slurp”), from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-, *srobʰ- (“to sip, slurp, gulp”). Cognate with West Frisian slurvje (“to slurp”), German schlürfen (“to sip, slurp”), Swedish slurpa (“to slurp”), Middle High German sürfeln, sürpfeln (“to sip, slurp”), Latin sorbeō (“to suck up, imbibe, absorb”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)p
[edit] Verb
slurp (third-person singular simple present slurps, present participle slurping, simple past and past participle slurped)
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
drink noisily
[edit] Noun
slurp (plural slurps)
