slurp

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

slurpen

Synoniemen

sip

suck

champ

drink

🥤

smack one’s lips

snort

lap

eat noisily

gulp down

masticate

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/slɜːp/

Etymologie (Engels)

Verwant aan Fries: sloarpe

Verwant aan Duits: schlürfen

Verwant aan Zweeds: slurpa

Verwant aan Noors: slurpe

Verwant aan Saterfries: slubberje

Verwant aan Middelhoogduits: sluppern

In summary

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.