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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

slurpy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈslɜː(ɹ)pi/

Etymology

From slurp + -y.

Meanings

  1. Sloppy; sounding or feeling like the slurping of liquid.
    • She wet her hands in a pan of brown water, then rubbed her palms together, a slurpy sound. 1998, Cris Mazza, Animal Acts: Fictions, page 55:
    • Nestor leans down and pats NJ on the head and NJ jumps right up in his lap and gives him a big slurpy, drooly doggy kiss right on his face. 2007, A. L. Niflhaim, Gail McLeod, Christmas in Distress, page 85:
  2. In the Raku programming language: being a form of variadic parameter list that can capture additional parameters.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
slurpiest Degree=Sup lexicographic
slurpier Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

slurpiness · slurpily

Relateds

Slurpee