slurp

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To eat or drink noisily.
2. (intransitive) 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.

Synonyms

sip

suck

champ

drink

🥤

smack one’s lips

snort

lap

eat noisily

gulp down

masticate

Translations

schlürfen

sorber

siroter

sucer

tracannare

bevuta rumorosa

ρουφώ

in großen Schlucken trinken

nippen

donner la becquée

manger bruyamment

saper

boire à petites gorgées

herunterschlucken

Pronounced as (IPA)

/slɜːp/

Etymology

Cognate with Western Frisian: sloarpe

Cognate with German: schlürfen

Cognate with Swedish: slurpa

Cognate with Norwegian: slurpe

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: slubberje

Cognate with Middle High German: 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.