blorp
blorp noun: a sound suggesting a splash of or into a volume of semiliquid material.
Noun
blorp (plural blorps)
- A sound suggesting a splash of or into a volume of semiliquid material.
- "Lesser artists might have been satisfied with, say, a 'blorp.' Or with a 'squoph.' Not Disney's noise trust. They said it must be 'voomp.' Their only trouble was that 'voomp' wasn't among the hundreds of crazy sounds they have catalogued."1941 March, “Voomp Clank Bomp: Name Your Noise and the Movies' Sound Makers Will Give It To You”, in Popular Science, page 106
- "The center of the pond made a sound like, 'blorp, blorp,' and began once again to boil and bubble as if it had never ceased."2007, Judith Merkle Riley, The Water Devil: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 141
Verb
blorp (third-person singular simple present blorps, present participle blorping, simple past and past participle blorped)
- To move or be deposited with a blorp.
- "She would sooner have touched what blorped out of a stuck drainpipe."1997, Michael Flynn, Firestar, Tor Science Fiction, →ISBN, page 330
- "Down below, this batter was blorping out onto pans covered with waxed paper."2005, Steve Almond, Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America, Harvest Books, →ISBN, page 134
Forms of blorp
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | blorps |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | blorps |
| present participle | blorping |
| past participle | blorped |
| past | blorped |
Origin of blorp
Onomatopoeic.
Questions about blorp
- What does blorp mean?
- Blorp means a sound suggesting a splash of or into a volume of semiliquid material.
- What part of speech is blorp?
- Blorp can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of blorp?
- The plural of blorp is blorps.
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