gulp

Значение (English)

Noun

1. The usual amount swallowed.
2. The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear.
3. An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.

Verb

1. To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow.
2. To react nervously by swallowing.

Intj

An indication of (the sound of) an involuntary fear reaction in the form of a swallowing motion.

Synonyms

swallow

drink

🥤

sip

swig

guzzle

quaff

devour

mouthful

draught

draft

gulping

eat

🍽️

fuddle

ingest

swill

bolt

gobble

whole

smoke

booze

suck

large drink

take

circle

⭕

clamour

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

company

consume

corps

covey

cram

dram

drift

drove

eat up

embezzle

engulf

erst

exaltation

family

👪

field

flight

✈️

flock

flush

gaggle

gorge

grist

harem

herd

hive

hold back

imbibe

intrigue

kennel

kindle

knot

🪢

leash

mob

murder

mustering

nest

nip

overeat

pack

paddling

parliament

plump

pod

polish off

potation

pounce

pride

raft

respectful

rookery

rout

school

🏫

shiver

shoal

shrewdness

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

🦥

slug

sounder

span

string

🪢

stud

sup

suppress

swallow up

swarm

tasting

team

tiding

tipple

tittering

train

🚋

tribe

trip

troop

wedge

wolf

🐺

wolf down

harras

clowder

drink noisily

drink quickly

gulp down

stuff in

ingulf

swallow down

murmuration

hirsel

cete

appropriate

army

ascension

auxiliary

band

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

bed

🛏️

bevy

bike

🚲

boar

🐗

brace

brood

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cartload

chowder

chug

Произносится как (IPA)

/ɡʌlp/

Этимология (English)

Inherited from среднеанглийский: gulpen

Cognate with нидерландский: galpen

Cognate with английский: galp

Cognate with западнофризский: gjalpe

Cognate with датский: gulpe

Cognate with шведский: glapa

Cognate with староанглийский: galpettan

In summary

From Middle English gulpen, probably from West Flemish or Middle Dutch gulpen, golpen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps of imitative origin, or related to Dutch galpen (“to roar, squeal”), English galp, gaup (“to gape”).
Related to German Low German gulpen (“to gush out, belch, gulp”), West Frisian gjalpe, gjalpje, gjealpje (“to gush, spurt forth”), Danish gulpe, gylpe (“to gulp up, disgorge”), dialectal Swedish glapa (“to gulp down”), Old English galpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”). More at galp.