English Explanatory Dictionary

slurp

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To eat or drink noisily.
  2. To make a loud sucking noise.
noun
  1. A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.
  2. A mouthful of liquid sucked up.

Pronunciation

/slɜːp/ /slɝp/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-slurp.wav

Word forms

slurp slurps slurping slurped shlurp slorp

Etymology

From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from Old Dutch *slurpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slurp- (“to sip, slurp”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-, *srobʰ- (“to sip, slurp, gulp”). Cognate with West Frisian sloarpe, sloarpje, slurvje (“to slurp”), German schlürfen (“to sip, slurp”), Swedish slurpa (“to slurp”), Norwegian slurpe (“to slurp”). Compare also Saterland Frisian slubberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slurp”), Middle High German sluppern (“to slurp”), Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic slupra (“to slurp”), Middle High German sürfeln, sürpfeln (“to sip, slurp”), Latin sorbeō (“to suck up, imbibe, absorb”). Often treated as onomatopoeic in modern writing.

Derived words

gurp slurpability slurpable Slurpee slurper slurpingly slurpsome slurp up slurpy unslurped
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