slurp

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Dutch *slurpen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *slarpaną (“to sip, slurp”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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

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  • Rhymes: -ɜː(r)p

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To eat or drink noisily.
    They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti.
    • 2015 Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[1]
      As the crowd cackles and caws, a white-backed vulture snakes its head deep into the wildebeest’s eye socket and hurriedly slurps, with grooved tongue, whatever it can before being ripped from its place at the table.
  2. (intransitive) To make a loud sucking noise.
    The mud slurped under our shoes.

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Translations

Noun

slurp (plural slurps)

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

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Afrikaans

FWOTD – 27 March 2017

Etymology

From Dutch slurp, variant of slurf.

Pronunciation

Noun

slurp (plural slurpe)

  1. trunk (extended nasal organ of an elephant)
    • 2007, Marthinus Christoffel Botha, Ons en die maan. Natuurroman, Protea Boekhuis, →ISBN, page 186:
      Hy hou hom koel deur sy ore ritmies te waai terwyl hy sy slurp spelerig heen en weer swaai.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

A variant form of slurf which is instead directly derived from slurpen; slurf is derived through the variant form slurven.

Noun

slurp m or f (plural slurpen, diminutive slurpje n)

  1. a gulp that involves slurping noises
  2. a slurping noise, especially when drinking or eating
  3. (archaic, dialectal) Alternative form of slurf (“trunk”).
    • 1849, W. Vrolik, De vrucht van den mensch en van de zoogdieren, G. M. P. Londonck (publ.), description of plate 54.
      Aan den wortel der slurp zit een klein beenstuk, hetwelk door bandachtige zelfstandigheid met het voorhoofdsbeen vereenigd is.
    • 1871, Pieter Harting, Leerboek der vergelijkende ontleedkunde. Eerste deel. Morphologie der ongewervelde dieren, H. C. A. Campagne (publ.), page 364
      De wand van den slurp bestaat uit een binnenste laag van kring- en een buitenste van lengte-spieren, welke laatste zich in de reeds genoemde terugtrekkende spier voortzetten.
    • 1892, "De olifant", in Antonie S. Reule Nzn (ed.), Kinder-courant. Weekblad voor onze jongens en meisjes, vol. 13, K. Fuhri (publ.), page 107.
      De groote slagtanden, die soms 2 à 2½ M. lang zijn en het kostbare elpenbeen of ivoor opleveren, hebben allen gemeen, als ook de slurp.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

slurp

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of slurpen
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of slurpen
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