slurp

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from Old Dutch *slurpen, from Proto-Germanic *slarpaną (“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”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)p

Verb

slurp (third-person singular simple present slurps, present participle slurping, simple past and past participle slurped)

1. To eat or drink (something) noisily.
2. To make a loud sucking noise.

   The mud slurped under our shoes.

Derived terms

• slurpy

Translations

drink noisily

• Bulgarian: сърбам (bg) (sârbam)
• Danish: slubre
• Faroese: slurpa, slurka, slufsa
• German: schlürfen (de)
• Italian: tracannare

• Polish: siorbać
• Russian: сёрбать (ru) (sjórbat'), хлебать (ru) (xlebát'), хлюпать (ru) (xljúpat')
• Slovak: chlípať, sŕkať
• Spanish: sorber (es)

Noun

slurp (plural slurps)

1. A loud sucking noise made in eating or drinking
2. A mouthful of liquid

Anagrams

• purls