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noun
A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A mouthful of liquid sucked up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To eat or drink noisily.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To make a loud sucking noise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
eat noisily
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: eat
History
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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