slurp
Plural: slurps
Verb
Verb Forms: slurped, slurping, slurps
- To eat or drink with a loud, sucking sound.
- eat noisily
- "He slurped his soup"
- To eat or drink noisily.
- To make a loud sucking noise.
Noun
- A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.
- A mouthful of liquid sucked up.
Examples
- I took another slurp of my soup.
- Some players slurp their coffee noisily, hoping to distract their Words With Friends opponent.
- The mud slurped under our shoes.
- They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti.
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 7
slurp: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordslurp: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
slurp: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary