slurp
To eat or drink noisilyTo eat or drink noisily.
» I don't want to hear any slurping.
Ich will kein Geschlürfe hören.
Ich will kein Geschlabber hören.
Meaning
2 senses(transitive)To eat or drink noisily.
They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti.
schlürfen
сёрбатьsjórbatʹ, хлеба́тьxlebátʹ, хлю́патьxljúpatʹ
eat noisily
(intransitive)To make a loud sucking noise.
The mud slurped under our shoes.
Examples
21 sentencesI don't want to hear any slurping.
deIch will kein Geschlürfe hören. — Naina
Tom slurped his soup, which annoyed Mary.
Is it considered rude to slurp noodles?
Tom slurped his drink.
Don't slurp your spaghetti.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from Old Dutch *slurpan, from Proto-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.
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Forms
slurps, slurping, slurped, slurpedWord family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle