slurp

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

sip

suck

champ

drink

🥤

smack one’s lips

snort

lap

eat noisily

gulp down

masticate

Pronounced as (IPA)

/slɜːp/

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.