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.
Meanings
A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.
A mouthful of liquid sucked up.
I took another slurp of my soup.
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bg сърбане (a loud sucking noise) · fi hörps (a loud sucking noise) · mi pākorakora (a loud sucking noise) · nl slurp (a loud sucking noise)
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.
Meanings
(transitive) To eat or drink noisily.
As the crowd cackles and caws, a white-backed vulture snakes its head deep into the wildebeest’s eye socket and hurriedly slurps, with grooved tongue, whatever it can before being ripped from its place at the table. December 2015, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2015:
izh särpää (eat or drink noisily) · hu szortyog (make a loud sucking noise) · es sorber (eat or drink noisily) · nb slurpe (eat or drink noisily) · fo slurka (eat or drink noisily) · qu upiy (eat or drink noisily) · fo slufsa (eat or drink noisily) · is sötra (eat or drink noisily) · cs srkat (eat or drink noisily) · hu szürcsöl (eat or drink noisily) · grc ῥοφέω (eat or drink noisily) · sk sŕkať (eat or drink noisily) · it tracannare (eat or drink noisily) · sv sörpla (eat or drink noisily) · gl sorber (eat or drink noisily) · nl slurpen (eat or drink noisily) · pl siorbać (eat or drink noisily) · fi ryystää (eat or drink noisily) · hi सुड़कना (eat or drink noisily) · gl larpar (eat or drink noisily) · de schlürfen (eat or drink noisily) · ru хлю́пать (eat or drink noisily) · ru хлеба́ть (eat or drink noisily) · ru сёрбать (eat or drink noisily) · mk срка (eat or drink noisily) · pam ilupan (eat or drink noisily) · fo slurpa (eat or drink noisily) · sk chlípať (eat or drink noisily) · bg сърбам (eat or drink noisily) · nl slorpen (eat or drink noisily) · pt sorver (eat or drink noisily) · hu szörcsög (make a loud sucking noise) · da slubre (eat or drink noisily) · hi सुड़पना (eat or drink noisily) · nn slurpa (eat or drink noisily) · sv slurpa (eat or drink noisily)