slurp

English

Alternative forms

• slorp (dialectal)

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /slɜːp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /slɝp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)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.

   • December 2015, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them”, in National Geographic‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 December 2015:

     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.

Derived terms

• slurpsome
• slurpy

Translations

eat or drink noisily

• Bulgarian: сърбам (bg) (sǎrbam)
• Czech: srkat (cs)
• Danish: slubre
• Dutch: slurpen (nl), slorpen (nl)
• Faroese: slurpa, slurka, slufsa
• Finnish: ryystää (fi)
• Galician: larpar (gl), sorber (gl)
• German: schlürfen (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ῥοφέω (rhophéō)

• Hindi: सुड़पना (suṛapnā), सुड़कना (hi) (suṛaknā)
• Hungarian: szürcsöl (hu)
• Icelandic: sötra
• Ingrian: särpää
• Italian: tracannare
• Kapampangan: ilupan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slurpe

  Nynorsk: slurpa

• Polish: siorbać (pl)
• Portuguese: sorver (pt)
• Quechua: upiy
• Russian: сёрбать (sjórbatʹ), хлеба́ть (ru) (xlebátʹ), хлю́пать (ru) (xljúpatʹ)
• Slovak: chlípať, sŕkať
• Spanish: sorber (es)
• Swedish: sörpla (sv), slurpa

make a loud sucking noise

• Hungarian: szörcsög (hu), szortyog (hu)

Noun

slurp (plural slurps)

1. A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.
2. A mouthful of liquid sucked up.

   I took another slurp of my soup.

Translations

a loud sucking noise

• Bulgarian: сърбане n (sǎrbane)
• Dutch: slurp (nl) m or f
• Finnish: hörps
• Maori: pākorakora

Anagrams

• purls

Afrikaans

FWOTD – 27 March 2017

Etymology

From Dutch slurp, variant of slurf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slœrp/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -œrp

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.

     He keeps himself cool by rhythmically waving his ears while he playfully swings his trunk back and forth.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slʏrp/
• Hyphenation: slurp
• Rhymes: -ʏrp

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.

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   • 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.

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   • 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.

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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

slurp

1. inflection of slurpen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative