slurp
/slɜːp/US/slɝp/
slurp verb: to eat or drink noisily.
Verb
slurp (third-person singular simple present slurps, present participle slurping, simple past and past participle slurped)
- To eat or drink noisily.
- They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti.
- As the crowd cackles and caws, a white-backed vulture snakes its head deep into the wildebeest’s eye socket and hurriedly slurps, with grooved tongue, whatever it can before being ripped from its place at the table.December 2015, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2015
- To make a loud sucking noise.
- The mud slurped under our shoes.
Noun
slurp (plural slurps)
slurp meaning in Hindi and Kannada
slurp in Hindi
- eat or drink noisily
- सुड़पना suṛapnā, सुड़कना suṛaknā
slurp in Kannada
- ಸುರಿದು ಕುಡಿ, ಸೊರ್ಕೊಂಡು ಕುಡಿ
Examples of slurp in a sentence
- She slurped a long noodle up out of her soup.
- She took a big slurp of wine, and then we all got stuck into the food.
- “Must be a nasty one.” We slurped our soda and ran for the trolley.
Forms of slurp
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | slurps |
| present participle | slurping |
| past participle | slurped |
| past | slurped |
| alternative form | shlurp |
| alternative form | slorp |
| Noun | |
| plural | slurps |
Origin of slurp
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.
Words formed from slurp
Words that rhyme with slurp
Questions about slurp
- What does slurp mean?
- Slurp means to eat or drink noisily.
- What is slurp in Hindi?
- Slurp in Hindi is सुड़पना (suṛapnā), सुड़कना (suṛaknā). See Slurp meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is slurp?
- Slurp can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce slurp?
- Slurp is pronounced /slɜːp/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of slurp?
- The past tense of slurp is slurped.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: slurp (page history and authors); slurp (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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