slurp
A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinkingA loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.
» I don't want to hear any slurping.
Ich will kein Geschlürfe hören. — Naina
Ich will kein Geschlabber hören. — Naina
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2 sensesA loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.
A mouthful of liquid sucked up.
I took another slurp of my soup.
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.
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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